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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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Following Emporer Nero's command, Let the Christians be exterminated!: . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.
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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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Reckless adventure is the fool's hazard.
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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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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Rumor does not always err it sometimes even elects a man.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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