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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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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 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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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life. [Lat., Honesta mors turpi vita potior.]
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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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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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Auctor nominis eius Christus,Tiberio imperitante, per procuratorem Pontium Pilatum, supplicio affectus erat. Christ, the leader of the sect, had been put to death by the procurator Pontius Pilate in the reign of Tiberius.
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All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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