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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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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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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger. [Lat., Si cadere necesse est, occurendum discrimini.]
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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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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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent. [Lat., Praefulgebant Cassius atque Brutus eo ipso, quod effigies eorum non videbantur.]
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