Nothing hurts worse than the loss of money.
LIVYEvents of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
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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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A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.
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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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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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It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
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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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Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.
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Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.
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Great contests generally excite great animosities.
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Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.
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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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Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies’ resources, and minimized their own.
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No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority.
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The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.
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