The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
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More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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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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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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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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None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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