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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.

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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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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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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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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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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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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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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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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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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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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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