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The end of life for all men is death, though one seek security by locking oneself in the innermost chamber.
XVIII. On the Crown (-330)
What worse charge can any one bring against an orator than that his words and his sentiments do not tally?
XVIII. On the Crown (-330)
For the sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
XVIII. On the Crown (-330)
The man who is in the highest state of prosperity, and who thinks his fortune most secure, knows not if it will remain unchanged till the evening.
XVIII. On the Crown (-330)
It is the natural disposition of all men to listen with pleasure to abuse and slander of their neighbour, and to hear with impatience those who utter praises of themselves.
XVIII. On the Crown (-330)
My view is that the recipient of a benefit ought to remember it all his life, but that the benefactor ought to put it out of his mind at once. [. . .] To remind a man of the good turns you have done to him is very much like a reproach.
XVIII. On the Crown (-330)
In the result, of course, the excessive and inopportune apathy of the common people has been punished by the loss of their independence, while their leaders, who fancied they were selling everything except themselves, discover too late that their own liberty was the first thing they sold.
XVIII. On the Crown (-330)