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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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Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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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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[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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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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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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In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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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 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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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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