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.
LIVYTruth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.
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There is always more spirit in attack than in defence.
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No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
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A woman’s mind is affected by the meanest gifts.
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Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
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The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.
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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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This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
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Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
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Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.
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Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
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Greater is our terror of the unknown.
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No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
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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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It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
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Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.
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