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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.

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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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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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