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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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Auctor nominis eius Christus,Tiberio imperitante, per procuratorem Pontium Pilatum, supplicio affectus erat. Christ, the leader of the sect, had been put to death by the procurator Pontius Pilate in the reign of Tiberius.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.
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Style, like the human body, is specially beautiful when, so to say, the veins are not prominent, and the bones cannot be counted, but when a healthy and sound blood fills the limbs, and shows itself in the muscles, and the very sinews become beautiful under a ruddy glow and graceful outline.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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There was more courage in bearing trouble than in escaping from it the brave and the energetic cling to hope, even in spite of fortune the cowardly and the indolent are hurried by their fears,' said Plotius Firmus, Roman Praetorian Guard.
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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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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of thanks. [Lat., Beneficia usque eo laeta sunt dum videntur exsolvi posse ubi multum antevenere pro gratia odium redditur.]
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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