Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.
LIVYAdversity makes men remember God.
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All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.
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Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
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The name of freedom regained is sweet to hear.
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Greater is our terror of the unknown.
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Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.
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The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.
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Never is work without reward, or reward without work.
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Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
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Great contests generally excite great animosities.
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No man likes to be surpassed by those of his own level.
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A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.
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No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
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We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
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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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He will have true glory who despises it.
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