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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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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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So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity while some hold for certain facts the most precarious hearsays, others turn facts into falsehood and both are exaggerated by posterity.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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