It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
LIVYThe 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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Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.
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Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.
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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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Greater is our terror of the unknown.
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Men’s minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.
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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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There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.
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Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.
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An honor prudently declined often returns with increased luster.
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A woman’s mind is affected by the meanest gifts.
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Better and safer is an assured peace than a victory hoped for. The one is in your own power, the other is in the hands of the gods.
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We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
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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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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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That business does not prosper which you transact with the eyes of others.
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