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Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.
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Mercury is the deity whom they chiefly worship, and on certain days they deem it right to sacrifice to him even with human victims.
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry.
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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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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
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In valor there is hope.
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Our magistrates discharge their duties best at the beginning; and fall off toward the end.
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The Germans themselves I should regard as aboriginal, and not mixed at all with other races through immigration or intercourse. For in former times, it was not by land but on shipboard that those who sought to emigrate would arrive; and the boundless and, so to speak, hostile ocean beyond us,is seldom entered by a sail from our world.
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The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters.
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This I hold to be the chief office of history, to rescue virtuous actions from the oblivion to which a want of records would consign them, and that men should feel a dread of being considered infamous in the opinions of posterity, from their depraved expressions and base actions.
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
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The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession.
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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution.
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It was rather a cessation of war than a beginning of peace.
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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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Everything unknown is magnified.
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