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There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man.

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All things are subject to decay and change.

Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.

In all human affairs, and especially in those that relate to war, ... leave always some room to fortune, and to accidents which cannot be foreseen.

The government will take the fairest of names, but the worst of realities—mob rule.

This is a sworn treaty made between us, Hannibal … and Xenophanes the Athenian ... in the presence of all the gods who possess Macedonia and the rest of Greece.

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