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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.

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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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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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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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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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