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I had seen the great, but I had not seen the small.

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.

Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.

The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.

Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.

A usurper always distrusts the whole world.

Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble.

Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.

For 'tis impossible Hate to return with love.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give--which is everything.

Liars are always most disposed to swear.

To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.

Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.

First thoughts are not always the best.

Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.