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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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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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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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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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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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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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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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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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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
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The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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