Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
LIVYSuch 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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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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The sun has not yet set for all time.
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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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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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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.
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Nothing hurts worse than the loss of money.
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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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That business does not prosper which you transact with the eyes of others.
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Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.
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There are laws for peace as well as war.
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Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.
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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.
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War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
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The name of freedom regained is sweet to hear.
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