It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
LIVYWe can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
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The mind sins, not the body; if there is no intention, there is no blame.
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A woman’s mind is affected by the meanest gifts.
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There is always more spirit in attack than in defence.
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Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
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Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.
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He will have true glory who despises it.
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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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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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No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
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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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Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
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Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
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Better and safer is an assured peace than a victory hoped for. The one is in your own power, the other is in the hands of the gods.
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From abundance springs safety.
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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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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
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Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.
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Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.
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When Tarquin the Proud was asked what was the best mode of governing a conquered city, he replied only by beating down with his staff all the tallest poppies in his garden.
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The study of History is the best medicine for a sick mind.
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In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.
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The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.
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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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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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Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
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Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.
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