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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.

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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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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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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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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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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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Following Emporer Nero’s command, “Let the Christians be exterminated!:” . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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