War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThere are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.
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No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
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Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave
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Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen despotism, as he that struggles tightens those cords he does not succeed in breaking.
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Pride requires very costly food-its keeper’s happiness.
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Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.
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Wit may do very well for a mistress, but I should prefer reason for a wife.
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It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.
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He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.
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As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.
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An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.
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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
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Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.
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If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.
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