Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.
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There is always more spirit in attack than in defence.
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Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.
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An honor prudently declined often returns with increased luster.
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There are laws for peace as well as war.
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The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.
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There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
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He will have true glory who despises it.
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Prosperity engenders sloth.
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Law is a thing which is insensible, and inexorable, more beneficial and more profitious to the weak than to the strong; it admits of no mitigation nor pardon, once you have overstepped its limits.
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The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.
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We feel public misfortunes just so far as they affect our private circumstances, and nothing of this nature appeals more directly to us than the loss of money.
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This was the Athenians’ war against the King of Macedon, a war of words. Words are the only weapons the Athenians have left.
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Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
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Law is a thing which is insensible, and inexorable, more beneficial and more profitious to the weak than to the strong; it admits of no mitigation nor pardon, once you have overstepped its limits.
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When Tarquin the Proud was asked what was the best mode of governing a conquered city, he replied only by beating down with his staff all the tallest poppies in his garden.
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Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.
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Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.
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