The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.
LIVYMen’s minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.
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Greater is our terror of the unknown.
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Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.
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Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.
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There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
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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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Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.
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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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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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Envy, like flames, soars upwards.
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Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
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A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.
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An honor prudently declined often returns with increased luster.
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In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
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Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.
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There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.
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