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Rumor does not always err it sometimes even elects a man.

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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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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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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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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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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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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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He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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Auctor nominis eius Christus,Tiberio imperitante, per procuratorem Pontium Pilatum, supplicio affectus erat. Christ, the leader of the sect, had been put to death by the procurator Pontius Pilate in the reign of Tiberius.
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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Tacitus has written an entire work on the manners of the Germans. This work is short, but it comes from the pen of Tacitus, who was always concise, because he saw everything at a glance.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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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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