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You might believe a good man easily, a great man with pleasure. -Bonum virum facile crederes, magnum libenter

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Publius Cornelius Tacitus
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Rumor does not always err it sometimes even elects a man.
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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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The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
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This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life. [Lat., Honesta mors turpi vita potior.]
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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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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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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Every great example of punishment has in it some injustice, but the suffering individual is compensated by the public good.
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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