Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.
LIVYNever is work without reward, or reward without work.
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Adversity makes men remember God.
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A certain peace is better and safer than a victory in prospect; the former is at your own disposal, the latter depends upon the gods.
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Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
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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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We feel public misfortunes just so far as they affect our private circumstances, and nothing of this nature appeals more directly to us than the loss of money.
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Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.
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We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
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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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There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.
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War is just to those for whom it is necessary, and arms are clear of impiety for those who have no hope left but in arms.
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There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.
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Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.
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Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.
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Greater is our terror of the unknown.
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