In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.
LIVYEnvy, like flames, soars upwards.
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Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
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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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A woman’s mind is affected by the meanest gifts.
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Persevere in virtue and diligence.
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Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.
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There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
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Adversity makes men remember God.
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Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.
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Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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Men’s minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.
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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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Luck rules every human endeavor, especially war.
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The sun has not yet set for all time.
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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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Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
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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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Great contests generally excite great animosities.
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Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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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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This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
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Necessity is the last and strongest weapon.
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Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.
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The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.
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