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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Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.
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Valor is the soldier’s adornment.
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Luck rules every human endeavor, especially war.
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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.
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There are laws for peace as well as war.
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The mind sins, not the body; if there is no intention, there is no blame.
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Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
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When Tarquin the Proud was asked what was the best mode of governing a conquered city, he replied only by beating down with his staff all the tallest poppies in his garden.
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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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War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
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Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.
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There is always more spirit in attack than in defence.
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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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A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.
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