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Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers.


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A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration. [Lat., Parva saepe scintilla contempta magnum excitavit incendium.]



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Haste is slow. [Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]



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The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.



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The fashions of human affairs are brief and changeable, and fortune never remains long indulgent. [Lat., Breves et mutabiles vices rerum sunt, et fortuna nunquam simpliciter indulget.]



A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.



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A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration.



Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule.

Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule.



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The mob has no ruler more potent than superstition.



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