Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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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 word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
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