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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
Tacitus
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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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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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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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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You might believe a good man easily, a great man with pleasure. -Bonum virum facile crederes, magnum libenter
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.
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