The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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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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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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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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Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
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