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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]

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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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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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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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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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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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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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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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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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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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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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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
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