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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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They terrify lest they should fear.
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Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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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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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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