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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We feel public misfortunes just so far as they affect our private circumstances, and nothing of this nature appeals more directly to us than the loss of money.
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Persevere in virtue and diligence.
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There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.
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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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Nothing hurts worse than the loss of money.
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There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.
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War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
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Temerity is not always successful.
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Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
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Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.
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That business does not prosper which you transact with the eyes of others.
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Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies’ resources, and minimized their own.
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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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Valor is the soldier’s adornment.
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