This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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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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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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