A woman’s mind is affected by the meanest gifts.
LIVYIn grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.
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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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Envy, like flames, soars upwards.
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The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself – something that’s in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered.
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The sun has not yet set for all time.
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Luck rules every human endeavor, especially war.
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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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Men’s minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.
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Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.
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Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.
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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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Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.
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Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.
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Valor is the soldier’s adornment.
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There are laws for peace as well as war.
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