No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
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In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.
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Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
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Law is a thing which is insensible, and inexorable, more beneficial and more profitious to the weak than to the strong; it admits of no mitigation nor pardon, once you have overstepped its limits.
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A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.
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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
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There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.
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The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.
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We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
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No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority.
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Greater is our terror of the unknown.
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Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.
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Never is work without reward, or reward without work.
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Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.
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He will have true glory who despises it.
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