Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal) quote: "For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed. [Lat., Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum, Facti crimen habet.]"

Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
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Father of his country. [Lat., Pater pariae.]
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I only feel, but want the power to paint. [Lat., Nequeo monstrare et sentio tantum.]
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Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or the display of family portraits, O P...
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You are not to do evil that good may come of it. [Lat., Non faciat malum, ut inde veniat bonum.]
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By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted. [Lat., Se judice, nemo nocens absolvitur.]
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Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another...
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A rare bird upon the earth, and exceedingly like a black swan. [Lat., Rara avis in terris, nigroqu...
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Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of a...
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Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This...
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No one rejoices more in revenge than woman. [Lat., Vindicta Nemo magis gaudet quam foemina.]
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Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind. [Lat., Semper et infirmi est anim...
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Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools. [Lat., At vindicta bonum vita jucundius ipsa...
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Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure. [Lat., Voluptates commendat rarior usus.]
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There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is praised as equal to the gods. [...
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Those who do not wish to kill any one, wish they had the power. [Lat., Et qui nolunt occidere quem...
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He who wishes to become rich wishes to become so immediately. [Lat., Dives fieri qui vult Et c...
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Common sense among men of fortune is rare. [Lat., Rarus enim ferme sunsus communis in illa For...
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Every vice makes its guilt the more conspicuous in proportion to the rank of the offender. [Lat.,...
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Satire is what closes Saturday night.
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It is difficult not to write satire. [Lat., Difficile est satiram non scribere.]
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I will it, I order it, let my will stand for a reason. [Lat., Hoc volo, sic jubeo, sit pro ratione...
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In their palate alone is their reason of existence. [Lat., In solo vivendi causa palata est.]
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Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition? (Listen to those who denounce what they do themselv...
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Whence do you derive the power and privilege of a parent, when you, though an old man, do worse thi...
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What is there that you enter upon so favorably as not to repent of the undertaking and the accompli...
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With thumb turned. [Lat., Verso pollice.]
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We are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved. [Lat., Dociles imitandis Turpib...
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Our prayers should be for a sound mind in a healthy body. [Lat., Orandum est ut sit mens sana in c...
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Generally, common sense is rare in the (higher) rank. [Lat., Rarus enim ferme sensus communis in i...
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Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.
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And though you duck them ne'er so long, Not one salt drop e'er wets their tongue; On eagles' w...
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And there's a lust in man no charm can tame Of loudly publishing our neighbour's shame; On eag...
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A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for. [Lat., Orandum est, ut sit mens sana in ...
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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow. [Lat., Felix ille tamen corvo quoque rarior albo.]
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Fond man! though all the heroes of your line Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine ...
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Go, madman! rush over the wildest Alps, that you may please children and be made the subject of de...
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Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of Latin. [Lat., Omnia Graece! C...
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Let me moderate our sorrows. The grief of a man should not exceed proper bounds, but be in proport...
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For He, who gave this vast machine to roll, Breathed Life in then, in us a Reasoning Soul; Tha...
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A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
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The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deform...
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The fisherman could perhaps be bought for less than the fish. [Lat., Potuit fortasse minoria P...
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What is more cruel than a tyrant's ear? [Lat., Quid violentius aure tyranni?]
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The tongue is the vile slave's vilest part. [Lat., Lingua mali pars pessima servi.]
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To eat at another's table is your ambition's height. [Lat., Bona summa putes, aliena vivere quadra...
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Bid the hungry Greek go to heaven, he will go. [Lat., Graeculus esuriens in coelum, jusseris, ibit...
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Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.
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Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
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Writing is the incurable itch that possesses many.
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Your prayer must be for a sound mind in a sound body.
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A hairy body, and arms stiff with bristles, give promise of a manly soul.
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From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse thin...
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Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.
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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.
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A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.
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The people long eagerly for just two things. Bread and circuses.
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Those who desire to become rich, desire it at once.
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Integrity is praised and then left out in the cold.
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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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All things may be bought in Rome with money.
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Many commit the same crime with a different destiny; one bears a cross as the price of his villainy,...
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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.
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No one every suddenly became depraved.
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It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.
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So rare is the union of beauty with modesty.
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The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into o...
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Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of af...
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Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last.
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We are too quick to imitate depraved examples.
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A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired.
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They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live.
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Two things only the people desire: bread, and the circus games.
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What is the use of your pedigrees?
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Even savage animals can agree among themselves.
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Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.
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It is difficult not to write satire.
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Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
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Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
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One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others.
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Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
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Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last.
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A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face
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Revenge is the abject pleasure of an abject mind.
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Revenge is a dish best served cold
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Besides what endless brawls by wives are bred,
The curtain lecture makes a mournful bed.
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Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance,
And toss them on the wheels of Chance.
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You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body.
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A healthy mind in a healthy body.
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Peace visits not the guilty mind.
(Nemo Malus Felix)
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It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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One globe seemed all too small for the youthful Alexander.
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This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.
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Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.
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There is hardly a case in which the dispute was not caused by a woman.
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A child is owed the greatest respect; if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't...
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Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
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Be gentle with the young.
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The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wi...
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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
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Wisdom overcomes fortune.
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The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.
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Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a con...
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Who will guard the guards themselves?
(quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no m...
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Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to lose what makes lif...
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Think it the greatest impiety to prefer life to disgrace, and for the sake of life to lose the reaso...
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Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we ...
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One path alone leads to a life of peace: The path of virtue.
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Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.
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Every fault of the mind becomes more conspicuous and more guilty in proportion to the rank of the of...
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Travelers with naught sing in the robber's face
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The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no m...
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Two things only the people anxiously desire - bread and circuses
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There's many a thing which they - Whose coats are tattered never dare to say
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Panem et circenses.
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No one ever became extremely wicked suddenly.
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All want to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price
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All wish to know, but none want to pay the fee
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Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last
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Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.
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Trust me, no tortures which the poets feign, can match the fierce, the unutterable pain, he feels, w...
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'Tis unto children most respect is due
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Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind
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Hold it the greatest sin to prefer existence to honor, and for the sake of life to lose the reasons ...
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Wisdom is the winner over good luck
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Honesty is praised and starves
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The blind envy the one-eyed
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No one ever suddenly became depraved
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Let nothing which is disgraceful to be spoken of, or to be seen, approach this place where a child i...
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Virtue is the one and only nobility.
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Indulgence rare to pleasures lendeth zest
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No one ever reached the depths of wickedness all at once.
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No one shall be a thief with me as his helper
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In times like these it is difficult not to write satire
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Eloquence under a threadbare cloak.
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Virtue's admired - and shivers with the cold
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difficile est saturam non scribere
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Who is to guard the guards themselves?
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The traveller with empty pockets will sing in the thief 's face.
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A child is owed the greatest respect; if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ign...
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I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason.
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No one delights more in vengeance than a woman. Juvenal, Satires, XIII.
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It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one members suffe...
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If individuals have no vices, their virtues may be of use to us.
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The heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, and the hand to execute. -Junius.
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Private credit is wealth; public honor is security; the feather that adorns the royal bird supports...
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The liberty of the press is the palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights of an E...
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I do not give you to posterity as a pattern to imitate, but as an example to deter.
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There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convinc...
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When a person is determined to believe something, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms them i...
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The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.
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Oppression is more easily endured than insult.
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Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art ra...
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The lives of the best of us are spent in choosing between evils.
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One precedent creates another and they soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was a fact...
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How much easier is it to be generous than just.
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The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public.
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Notable talents are not necessarily connected with discretion.
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The liberty of the press is the Palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights of an En...
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Where the guilt is doubtful, a presumption of innocence should in general be admitted.
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Guilt alone, like brain-sick frenzy in its feverish mood, fills the light air with visionary terrors...
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We owe it to our ancestors to preserve entire those rights they have delivered to our care. We owe i...
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It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares ...
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It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dare...
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These are the gloomy comparisons of a disturbed imagination; the melancholy madness of poetry, with...
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The coldest bodies warm with opposition; the hardest sparkle in collision.
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Let it be impressed upon your minds, let it be instilled into your children, that the liberty of the...
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The gloomy comparisons of a disturbed imagination, the melancholy madness of poetry without the ins...
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The liberty of the Press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Eng...
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He was so fine. I was just wishing he could have took me home with him.
VENUS JUNIUS

What a man does by the agency of another is his own act.
DECIMUS LABERIUS

The naming of one man amounts to the exclusion of another.
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No injury can be complained of by a consenting party.
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He who takes the profit ought also to take the labour.
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He who sins when drunk will have to atone for it when sober.
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He who is first in time has the prior right.
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From his silence a man's consent is inferred.
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An uncalled-for defence becomes a positive accusation.
DECIMUS LABERIUS

He who gives himself airs of importance, exhibits the credentials of impotence.
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Caesar's wife should be above suspicion.
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To place yourself under an obligation is to sell your liberty.
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He confesses his guilt who flies from his trial.
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And Modesty, who, when she goes, Is gone for ever.
DECIMUS LABERIUS

Hard cases make bad law.
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No man ought to be twice tried for the same offence.
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It is not to be argued that the abuse of a thing proves that it is useless.
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The more honesty a man has the less he affects the air of a saint.
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As you behave towards others, expect that others will behave to you.
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Begin -- to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have fini...
DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS

Nothing more detestable does the earth produce than an ungrateful man.
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Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.
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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.
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Begin whatever you have to do: the beginning of a work stands for the whole. [Lat., Incipe quidq...
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Begin; to begin is half the work. Let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have fini...
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Earth produces nothing worse than an ungrateful man. [Lat., Nil homine terra pejus ingrato creat.]
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If thou art terrible to many, then beware of many. [Lat., Multis terribilis, caveto multos.]
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For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed. [Lat., Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum, Facti crimen habet.]

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For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed. [Lat., Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum, Facti crimen habet.]

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