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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.

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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.]
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No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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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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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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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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