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

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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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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
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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 injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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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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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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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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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
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There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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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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Following Emporer Nero’s command, “Let the Christians be exterminated!:” . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.
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