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History has a Nemesis for every sin—for an impotent craving after freedom, as well as for an injudicious generosity.

— Theodor Mommsen

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Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.

Absolute power by virtue of its very nature withdraws itself from all specification.

Posterity has justified more the policy of conquest than that of concession.

The art of measuring brings the world into subjection to man.

Mankind have infinite difficulty in reaching new creations, and therefore cherish the once developed forms as sacred heirlooms.

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