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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt

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So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.
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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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Guilt Hated Inside Prefer Sorrow Strong Traitor
Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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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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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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In valor there is hope.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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Chastity Lost Modesty One Liner Proud Respect Shrink Woman Empowerment
The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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Chastity Lost Modesty One Liner Proud Respect Shrink Woman Empowerment
The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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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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