"Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time."
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"Mental stains can not be removed by time, nor washed away by any waters. [Lat., Animi labes nec diuturnitate vanescere nec omnibus ullis elui potest.]"
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"The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong."
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"When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank."
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"All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship."
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"Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely circulated."
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"Even the ablest pilots are willing to receive advice from passengers in tempestuous weather."
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"There is no duty more indispensible than that of returning a kindness."
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"To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool."
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"Dum Spiro, spero- As long as I breathe, I hope."
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"Virtue is its own reward."
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"It is a man's own dishonesty, his crimes, his wickedness, and boldness, that takes away from him soundness of mind; these are the furies, these the flames and firebrands, of the wicked."
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"It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post."
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"It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life."
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"There is no castle so strong that it cannot be overthrown by money."
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"I am never less alone than when alone."
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"I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier."
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"Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared."
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"Vicious habits are so odious and degrading that they transform the individual who practices them into an incarnate demon."
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"So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge."
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