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... sort of followers . Nay , Seneca adds , niceness and satiety ? Cogita quamdiu eadem feceris ; mori velle , non tantum fortis , aut miser , sed etiam fastidiosus potest . " A man would die , though he were neither valiant nor miserable ...
... sort of followers . Nay , Seneca adds , niceness and satiety ? Cogita quamdiu eadem feceris ; mori velle , non tantum fortis , aut miser , sed etiam fastidiosus potest . " A man would die , though he were neither valiant nor miserable ...
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... sort of revenge is for those wrongs which there is no law to remedy ; but then , let a man take heed the revenge be such as there is no law to punish , else a man's enemy is still be- fore hand , and it is two for one . Some , when they ...
... sort of revenge is for those wrongs which there is no law to remedy ; but then , let a man take heed the revenge be such as there is no law to punish , else a man's enemy is still be- fore hand , and it is two for one . Some , when they ...
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... sort of politicians that are the great dissemblers . Tacitus saith , " Livia sorted well with the arts " of her husband , and dissimulation of her son ; at- 66 tributing arts or policy to Augustus , and dissimu- " lation to Tiberius ...
... sort of politicians that are the great dissemblers . Tacitus saith , " Livia sorted well with the arts " of her husband , and dissimulation of her son ; at- 66 tributing arts or policy to Augustus , and dissimu- " lation to Tiberius ...
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... sort with mean company ; and makes them surfeit more when they come to plenty and there- fore the proof is best when men keep their authority towards their children , but not their purse . Men have a foolish manner ( both parents , and ...
... sort with mean company ; and makes them surfeit more when they come to plenty and there- fore the proof is best when men keep their authority towards their children , but not their purse . Men have a foolish manner ( both parents , and ...
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... sort of politic persons , in their greatness , are ever bemoaning themselves what a life they lead , chanting a " quanta patimur " ; not that they feel it so , but only to abate the edge of envy but this is to be understood of business ...
... sort of politic persons , in their greatness , are ever bemoaning themselves what a life they lead , chanting a " quanta patimur " ; not that they feel it so , but only to abate the edge of envy but this is to be understood of business ...
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