We feel public misfortunes just so far as they affect our private circumstances, and nothing of this nature appeals more directly to us than the loss of money.
LIVYWar is just to those to whom war is necessary.
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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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This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
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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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Adversity reminds men of religion.
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War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
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That business does not prosper which you transact with the eyes of others.
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Persevere in virtue and diligence.
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This was the Athenians’ war against the King of Macedon, a war of words. Words are the only weapons the Athenians have left.
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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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Adversity makes men remember God.
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The study of History is the best medicine for a sick mind.
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It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
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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 an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.
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Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.
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