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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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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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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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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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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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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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Yet the age was not so utterly destitute of virtues but that it produced some good examples. [Lat., Non tamen adeo virtutum sterile seculum, ut non et bona exempla prodiderit.]
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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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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They terrify lest they should fear.
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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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