War is just to those for whom it is necessary, and arms are clear of impiety for those who have no hope left but in arms.
LIVYThe result showed that fortune helps the brave.
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Envy, like flames, soars upwards.
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Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.
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Wit is the flower of the imagination.
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Better and safer is an assured peace than a victory hoped for. The one is in your own power, the other is in the hands of the gods.
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No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
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Great contests generally excite great animosities.
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Greater is our terror of the unknown.
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Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.
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He will have true glory who despises it.
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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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Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.
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There is always more spirit in attack than in defence.
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A certain peace is better and safer than a victory in prospect; the former is at your own disposal, the latter depends upon the gods.
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Nothing hurts worse than the loss of money.
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He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune’s breeze is favorable, or cast down when it is adverse.
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