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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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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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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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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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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.]
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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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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