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

— Theodor Mommsen

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Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.

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.

Mischievous and ill-disposed lads are very inconvenient, but not more than inconvenient, in the household as in commonwealth.

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