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Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.

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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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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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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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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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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 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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It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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