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13 quotations from The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1896), with the subject each one is filed under.

Restaurations. 3d Édit. II. Pp. 30, 31. J'avais vu les grands, mais je n'avais pas vu les petits. I had seen the great, but I had not seen the small.— filed under Change

Il reo D'un delitto è chi'l pensa: a chi l' ordisce La pena spetta. The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.— filed under Crime

Non nella pena, Nel delitto è la infamia. Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime. S.— filed under Crime

Oh! ben provvide il cielo, Ch' uom per delitto mai lieto non sia. Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.— filed under Crime

Usurpator diffida Di tutti sempre. A usurper always distrusts the whole world.— filed under Distrust

Spesso è da forte, Più che il morire, il vivere. Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.— filed under Life

A giurar presti i mentitor son sempre. Liars are always most disposed to swear.— filed under Memory

D'uomo è il fallir, ma dal malvagio il buono Scerne il dolor del fallo. To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.— filed under Repentance

Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.— filed under Silence

Sempre il miglior non è il parer primiero. First thoughts are not always the best.— filed under Thought

Che amar chi t'odia, ell'è impossibil cosa. For 'tis impossible Hate to return with love.— filed under Lying

Ove son leggi, Tremar non dee chi leggi non infranse. Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble.— filed under Louis Philippe

Alta vendetta D'alto silenzio è figlia. Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.— filed under Bonnard