From abundance springs safety.
LIVYWar is just to those for whom it is necessary, and arms are clear of impiety for those who have no hope left but in arms.
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No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
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There are laws for peace as well as war.
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Wit is the flower of the imagination.
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Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
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No one wants to be excelled by his relatives.
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The mind sins, not the body; if there is no intention, there is no blame.
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It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
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Adversity reminds men of religion.
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There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
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A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.
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Bad beginnings, bad endings.
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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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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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Persevere in virtue and diligence.
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There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.
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In war, mere appearances have had all the effect of realities; and that a person, under a firm persuasion that he can command resources, virtually has them; that very prospect inspiring him with hope and boldness in his exertions.
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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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Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.
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The less there is of fear, the less there is of danger.
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A woman’s mind is affected by the meanest gifts.
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In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
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The name of freedom regained is sweet to hear.
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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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Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.
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War is just to those for whom it is necessary, and arms are clear of impiety for those who have no hope left but in arms.
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