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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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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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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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Style, like the human body, is specially beautiful when, so to say, the veins are not prominent, and the bones cannot be counted, but when a healthy and sound blood fills the limbs, and shows itself in the muscles, and the very sinews become beautiful under a ruddy glow and graceful outline.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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