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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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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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To abandon your shield is the basest of crimes nor may a man thus disgraced be present at the sacred rites, or enter their council many, indeed, after escaping from battle, have ended their infamy with the halter.
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Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.
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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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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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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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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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Rumor does not always err it sometimes even elects a man.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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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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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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