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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 hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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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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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
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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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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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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger. [Lat., Si cadere necesse est, occurendum discrimini.]
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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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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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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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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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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