Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]
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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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They terrify lest they should fear.
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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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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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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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