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.
LIVYThose ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
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Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.
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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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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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An honor prudently declined often returns with increased luster.
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We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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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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A certain peace is better and safer than a victory in prospect; the former is at your own disposal, the latter depends upon the gods.
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No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
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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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Envy, like flames, soars upwards.
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Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.
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Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.
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The less there is of fear, the less there is of danger.
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