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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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Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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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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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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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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None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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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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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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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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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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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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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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