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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less.
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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The customs of the Jews are base and abominable and owe their persistence to their depravity. Jews are extremely loyal to one another, always ready to show compassion, but towards every other people they feel only hate and enimity. As a race (the Jews are not a race, because they have mingled with the other races to the point that they are only a people, not a race), they are prone to lust; among themselves nothing is unlawful.
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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Experience teaches.
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The changeful change of circumstances.
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The Jews have an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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Rumor is not always wrong.
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Yet the age was not so utterly destitute of virtues but that it produced some good examples.
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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies.
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