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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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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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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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The images of twenty of the most illustrious families the Manlii, the Quinctii, and other names of equal splendour were carried before it [the bier of Junia]. Those of Brutus and Cassius were not displayed but for that very reason they shone with pre-eminent lustre.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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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 desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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Reckless adventure is the fool's hazard.
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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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