In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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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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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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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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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
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