Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.
LIVYIn grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.
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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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Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.
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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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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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He will have true glory who despises it.
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This was the Athenians’ war against the King of Macedon, a war of words. Words are the only weapons the Athenians have left.
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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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War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
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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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Nothing hurts worse than the loss of money.
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Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
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Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies’ resources, and minimized their own.
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Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
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Necessity is the last and strongest weapon.
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Envy, like flames, soars upwards.
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