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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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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish. [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.]
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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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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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
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The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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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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