Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
LIVYIn adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.
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In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
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Luck rules every human endeavor, especially war.
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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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No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
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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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The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself – something that’s in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered.
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Nothing hurts worse than the loss of money.
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Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
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Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
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In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.
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The sun has not yet set for all time.
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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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He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune’s breeze is favorable, or cast down when it is adverse.
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Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.
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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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Woe to the conquered.
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This was the Athenians’ war against the King of Macedon, a war of words. Words are the only weapons the Athenians have left.
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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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Great contests generally excite great animosities.
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The result showed that fortune helps the brave.
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Greater is our terror of the unknown.
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There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
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No one wants to be excelled by his relatives.
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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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When Tarquin the Proud was asked what was the best mode of governing a conquered city, he replied only by beating down with his staff all the tallest poppies in his garden.
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That business does not prosper which you transact with the eyes of others.
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