We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
LIVYNothing moves more quickly than scandal.
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Such is the nature of crowds: either they are humble and servile or arrogant and dominating. They are incapable of making moderate use of freedom, which is the middle course, or of keeping it.
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Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
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No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
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Temerity is not always successful.
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Adversity reminds men of religion.
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A woman’s mind is affected by the meanest gifts.
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Adversity makes men remember God.
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Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
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Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.
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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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Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.
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From abundance springs safety.
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I have often heard that the outstanding man is he who thinks deeply about a problem, and the next is he who listens carefully to advice.
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There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
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Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.
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