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In careless ignorance they think it civilization, when in reality it is a portion of their slavery...To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false pretenses, they call empire and where they make a desert, they call it peace.
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Following Emporer Nero's command, Let the Christians be exterminated!: . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.
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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose. [Lat., Imperium flagitio acquisitum nemo unquam bonis artibus exercuit.]
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Our magistrates discharge their duties best at the beginning and fall off toward the end. [Lat., Initia magistratuum nostrorum meliora, ferme finis inclinat.]
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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To abandon your shield is the basest of crimes nor may a man thus disgraced be present at the sacred rites, or enter their council many, indeed, after escaping from battle, have ended their infamy with the halter.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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There was more courage in bearing trouble than in escaping from it the brave and the energetic cling to hope, even in spite of fortune the cowardly and the indolent are hurried by their fears,' said Plotius Firmus, Roman Praetorian Guard.
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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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