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Things forbidden have a secret charm.

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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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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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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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Rumor does not always err it sometimes even elects a man.
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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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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent. [Lat., Praefulgebant Cassius atque Brutus eo ipso, quod effigies eorum non videbantur.]
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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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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