The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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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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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
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He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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