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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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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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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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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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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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Our magistrates discharge their duties best at the beginning and fall off toward the end. [Lat., Initia magistratuum nostrorum meliora, ferme finis inclinat.]
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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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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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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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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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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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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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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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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