This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
LIVYNo law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority.
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Persevere in virtue and diligence.
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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune’s breeze is favorable, or cast down when it is adverse.
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Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.
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A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.
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No law is quite appropriate for all.
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Adversity reminds men of religion.
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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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The sun has not yet set for all time.
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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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The result showed that fortune helps the brave.
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We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
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Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
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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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