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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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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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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
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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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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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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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They make a desert and call it peace.
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