Men’s minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.
LIVYWar is just to those to whom war is necessary.
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Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.
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Persevere in virtue and diligence.
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Valor is the soldier’s adornment.
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In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.
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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
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In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
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Temerity is not always successful.
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Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.
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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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All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.
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Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.
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Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
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The result showed that fortune helps the brave.
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Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
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No one wants to be excelled by his relatives.
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