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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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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger. [Lat., Si cadere necesse est, occurendum discrimini.]
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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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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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It is of eloquence as of a flame it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it and it brightens as it burns.
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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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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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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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Reckless adventure is the fool's hazard.
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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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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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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