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So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.

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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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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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In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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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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