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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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Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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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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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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Every great example of punishment has in it some injustice, but the suffering individual is compensated by the public good.
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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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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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