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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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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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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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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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Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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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 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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