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.
LIVYThis above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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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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Woe to the conquered.
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No one wants to be excelled by his relatives.
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The sun has not yet set for all time.
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A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.
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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.
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Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
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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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Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.
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War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
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Bad beginnings, bad endings.
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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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There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.
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