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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.

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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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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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Rumor is not always wrong
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.]
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The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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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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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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In valor there is hope.
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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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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There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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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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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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