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The greater our fortune, the more likely to fail us.

Anger stops nothing.

Accused innocence fears fate, not the witnesses.

It is not a hard lot to be obliged to return to the state whence we came.

I should not please to be king, if I must therefore be pleased to be cruel.

The hour of triumph loves no co-partnership.

You can obey a request much better than a command.

Every thing is worth what the purchaser will pay for it.

Give your friend cause to blush; and you will be likely to lose him.

Repeated pardons encourage offenses.

To prefer a request smacks of servility to a noble spirit.

You would not sin so often if you knew some things of which you are ignor