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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.

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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger. [Lat., Si cadere necesse est, occurendum discrimini.]
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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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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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You might believe a good man easily, a great man with pleasure. -Bonum virum facile crederes, magnum libenter
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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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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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Yet the age was not so utterly destitute of virtues but that it produced some good examples. [Lat., Non tamen adeo virtutum sterile seculum, ut non et bona exempla prodiderit.]
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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