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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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Et maiores vestros et posteros cogitate.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
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Auctor nominis eius Christus,Tiberio imperitante, per procuratorem Pontium Pilatum, supplicio affectus erat. Christ, the leader of the sect, had been put to death by the procurator Pontius Pilate in the reign of Tiberius.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.
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nisi impunitatis cupido retinuisset, magnis semper conatibus adversa.
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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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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…ibi boni mores valent quam alibi bonae leges. 2
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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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Pacem sine dubio post haec, verum cruentam.
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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
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Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium; atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.
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Then there is the usual scene when lovers are excited with each other, quarrels, entreaties, reproaches, and then fondling reconcilement.
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He possessed a peculiar talent of producing effect in whatever he said or did.
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