It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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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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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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In valor there is hope.
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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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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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