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The persecution of genius fosters its influence.

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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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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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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
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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 most seditious is the most cowardly.
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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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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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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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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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
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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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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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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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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
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