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Always the same thing.
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The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.
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For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.
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I follow nature as the surest guide, and resign myself with implicit obedience to her sacred ordinances.
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It is a crime to put a Roman citizen in chains, it is an enormity to flog one, sheer murder to slay one: what, then, shall I say of crucifixion? It is impossible to find the word for such an abomination.
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Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
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Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)
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Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.
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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
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In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.
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Do nothing twice over.
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No deceit is so veiled as that which lies concealed behind the semblance of courtesy.
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The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of someday being a commander.
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To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship.
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The safety of the people shall be the highest law.
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To give counsel, as well as to take it, is a feature of true friendship.
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A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
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The more laws, the less justice.
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Our country is wherever we are well off. [Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]
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Friendship is nothing else than entire fellow feeling as to all things human and divine with mutual good-will and affection and I doubt whether anything better than this, wisdom alone excepted, has been given to man.
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