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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]

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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
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It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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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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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish. [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.]
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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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 worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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Following Emporer Nero’s command, “Let the Christians be exterminated!:” . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.
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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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