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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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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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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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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 gods are on the side of the stronger.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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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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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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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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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 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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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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