Prosperity engenders sloth.
LIVYThe study of History is the best medicine for a sick mind.
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Bad beginnings, bad endings.
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Wit is the flower of the imagination.
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There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.
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Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.
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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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There is always more spirit in attack than in defence.
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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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No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
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A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.
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War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
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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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No law is quite appropriate for 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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Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.
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Greater is our terror of the unknown.
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