Prosperity engenders sloth.
LIVYResistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.
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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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An honor prudently declined often returns with increased luster.
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It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult and arduous.
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I have often heard that the outstanding man is he who thinks deeply about a problem, and the next is he who listens carefully to advice.
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From abundance springs safety.
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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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No 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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Temerity is not always successful.
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Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.
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Necessity is the last and strongest weapon.
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Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.
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Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.
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A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.
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War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
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Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.
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