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Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.

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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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Careless End One Liner Over Pain Sorrow Start Struggle
Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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