Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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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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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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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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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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