Scarcely is there any peace so unjust that it is better than even the fairest war. Vix ulla tam iniqua pax, quin bello vel aequissimo sit potior.
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Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.Desiderius Erasmus
He who allows oppression shares the crime.
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They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.
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To know nothing is the happiest life.
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It is folly alone that stays the fugue of Youth and beats off touring Old Age.
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It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.
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