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#1. The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.

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#2. It is often a comfort in misfortune to know our own fate.
[Lat., Saepe calamitas solatium est nosse sortem suam.]

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#3. A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration.
[Lat., Parva saepe scintilla contempta magnum excitavit incendium.]

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#4. A brave man's country is wherever he chooses his abode.
[Lat., Patria est ubicumque vir fortis sedem elegerit.]

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#5. Habit is stronger than nature.

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#6. Prosperity can change man's nature; and seldom is any one cautious enough to resist the effects of good fortune.
[Lat., Res secundae valent commutare naturam, et raro quisquam erga bona sua satis cautus est.]

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#7. Doctors cure the more serious diseases with harsh remedies. Curtius Medici graviores morbos asperis remediis curant

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#8. Nothing is so secure in its position as not to be in danger from the attack even of the weak.

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#9. A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

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#10. Fear makes men believe the worst.

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#11. Timid dogs more eagerly bark than bite.

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#12. He is a fool who looks at the fruit of lofty trees, but does not measure their height.

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#13. Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers.

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#14. When fear has seized upon the mind, man fears that only which he first began to fear.
[Lat., Ubi intravit animos pavor, id solum metuunt, quod primum formidate coeperunt.]

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#15. Nothing is strong that may not be endangered even by the weak.

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#16. The mob has no ruler more potent than superstition.

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#17. Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man.

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#18. For my own part I am persuaded that everything advances by an unchangeable law through the eternal constitution and association of latent causes, which have been long before predestined.

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#19. Nature has placed nothing so high that virtue can not reach it.
[Lat., Nihil tam alte natura constituit quo virtus non possit eniti.]

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#20. The fashions of human affairs are brief and changeable, and fortune never remains long indulgent.
[Lat., Breves et mutabiles vices rerum sunt, et fortuna nunquam simpliciter indulget.]

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#21. Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.

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#22. Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule.

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#23. When the truth cannot be clearly made out, what is false is increased through fear.

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