Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
In valor there is hope.
Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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.
Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
Things forbidden have a secret charm.
Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk. [Lat., Vulgus ignavum et nihil ultra verba ausurum.]
Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
Rumor is not always wrong
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.
[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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