Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
LIVYThe name of freedom regained is sweet to hear.
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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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The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.
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The sun has not yet set for all time.
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Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.
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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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Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.
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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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Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.
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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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Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
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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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Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.
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War is just to those for whom it is necessary, and arms are clear of impiety for those who have no hope left but in arms.
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Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.
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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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