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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.

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Publius Cornelius Tacitus
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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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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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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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Our magistrates discharge their duties best at the beginning and fall off toward the end. [Lat., Initia magistratuum nostrorum meliora, ferme finis inclinat.]
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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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