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Some might consider him as too fond of fame; for the desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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Those whose habit it is to admire what is forbidden ought to know that there can be great men even under bad emperors.
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Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened.
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In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
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I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
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120
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