Envy, like flames, soars upwards.
LIVYMen’s minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.
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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
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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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Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
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Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.
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We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
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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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Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.
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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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It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult and arduous.
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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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I have often heard that the outstanding man is he who thinks deeply about a problem, and the next is he who listens carefully to advice.
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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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There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.
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We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
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