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This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.

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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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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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