Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
In valor there is hope.
Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
The most seditious is the most cowardly.
To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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.
Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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.
None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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.
A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
In all things there is a law of cycles.
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.
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