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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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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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Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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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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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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I am my nearest neighbour.
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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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You might believe a good man easily, a great man with pleasure. -Bonum virum facile crederes, magnum libenter
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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
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Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]
Tacitus
Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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