This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
LIVYWoe to the conquered.
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Never is work without reward, or reward without work.
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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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A woman’s mind is affected by the meanest gifts.
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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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Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.
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Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.
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The result showed that fortune helps the brave.
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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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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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There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.
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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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Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
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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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Adversity reminds men of religion.
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