Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.
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Men’s minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.
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Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.
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Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
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Such is the nature of crowds: either they are humble and servile or arrogant and dominating. They are incapable of making moderate use of freedom, which is the middle course, or of keeping it.
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Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
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Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.
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Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.
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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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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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No one wants to be excelled by his relatives.
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That business does not prosper which you transact with the eyes of others.
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He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune’s breeze is favorable, or cast down when it is adverse.
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Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
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Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.
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The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.
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Valor is the soldier’s adornment.
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