Greater is our terror of the unknown.
LIVYBetter 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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This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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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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No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority.
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Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.
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Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.
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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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No one wants to be excelled by his relatives.
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No man likes to be surpassed by those of his own level.
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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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Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.
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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
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Envy, like flames, soars upwards.
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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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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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