Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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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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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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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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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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