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.
LIVYA woman’s mind is affected by the meanest gifts.
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Prosperity engenders sloth.
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The name of freedom regained is sweet to hear.
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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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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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Great contests generally excite great animosities.
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The sun has not yet set for all time.
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We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
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Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
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Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
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Temerity is not always successful.
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Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.
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Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.
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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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Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
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