No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
LIVYNothing moves more quickly than scandal.
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Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.
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In war, mere appearances have had all the effect of realities; and that a person, under a firm persuasion that he can command resources, virtually has them; that very prospect inspiring him with hope and boldness in his exertions.
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The name of freedom regained is sweet to hear.
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Law is a thing which is insensible, and inexorable, more beneficial and more profitious to the weak than to the strong; it admits of no mitigation nor pardon, once you have overstepped its limits.
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All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.
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This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
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The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.
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Adversity reminds men of religion.
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A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.
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Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.
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The sun has not yet set for all time.
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In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
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Law is a thing which is insensible, and inexorable, more beneficial and more profitious to the weak than to the strong; it admits of no mitigation nor pardon, once you have overstepped its limits.
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We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
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Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.
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