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.
LIVYPersevere in virtue and diligence.
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A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.
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Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.
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Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.
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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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That business does not prosper which you transact with the eyes of others.
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The name of freedom regained is sweet to hear.
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The less there is of fear, the less there is of danger.
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Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.
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No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
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Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.
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In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.
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The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.
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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.
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There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.
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