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Might was the measure of right.
Not a stone but has its history.
All go free when multitudes offend.
How blind men are to Heaven's gifts!
Great fear is concealed under daring.
By boldness great fears are cancealed.
A show of daring oft conceals great fear.
There stands the shadow of a glorious name.
Deep-seated are the wounds of civil brawls.
Delay is ever fatal to those who are prepared.
...Men fear what they themselves have imagined.
A crime which is the crime of many none avenge.
Poverty fled, she who gives birth to virile men.
An idle life always produces varied inclinations.
The prosperous man does not know whether he is loved.
He is covered by the heavens who has no sepulchral urn.
No man is ever innocent when his opponent is the judge.
Every great man inevitable resents a partner in greatness.
Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.
Deny a strong man his due, and he will take all he can get.
Neither side is guiltless if its adversary is appointed judge.
I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.
Poverty, the mother of manhood. Also, the mother of prostitution.
Make us enemies of every people on earth, but save us from civil war.
Believing nothing does whilst there remained anything else to be done.
Why seek the Deity further? Whatever we see is God, and wherever we go.
To strictest justice many ills belong, And honesty is often in the wrong.
Learn on how little man may live, and how small a portion nature requires.
The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life
The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.
Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.
The remaining liberty of the world was to be destroyed in the place where it stood.
The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.
Among those who share a throne there can be no loyalty; Dominion's ever impatient consort.
Let him leave the imperial court, who wishes to be virtuous. Virtue and absolute power cannot coexist.
As great edifices collapse of their own weight, so Heaven sets a similar limit to the growth of prosperous states.
As far as the stars are from the earth, and as different as fire is from water, so much do self-interest and integrity differ.
Thus each person by his fears gives wings to rumor, and, without any real source of apprehension, men fear what they themselves have imagined.
The abode of God, too, is wherever is earth and sea and air, and sky and virtue. Why further do we seek the Gods of heaven? Whatever thou dost behold and whatever thou dost touch, that is Jupiter.
As far as the earth is from the stars, and fire from the sea, so is the useful from the right. Power over men perishes completely if justice begins to be observed, and respect for individual rights overcomes strongholds.