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So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.

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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.
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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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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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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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