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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.

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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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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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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
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