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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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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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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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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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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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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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Rumor does not always err it sometimes even elects a man.
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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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He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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