Necessity is the last and strongest weapon.
LIVYMen are slower to recognize blessings than evils.
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A woman’s mind is affected by the meanest gifts.
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In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
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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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Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.
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Adversity reminds men of religion.
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Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
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The result showed that fortune helps the brave.
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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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Such is the nature of crowds: either they are humble and servile or arrogant and dominating. They are incapable of making moderate use of freedom, which is the middle course, or of keeping it.
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Envy, like flames, soars upwards.
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Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
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Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.
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Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
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A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.
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Woe to the conquered.
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