This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
LIVYLaw 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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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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Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.
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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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In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
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The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.
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No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
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No man likes to be surpassed by those of his own level.
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Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.
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Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.
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Valor is the soldier’s adornment.
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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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Greater is our terror of the unknown.
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War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
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It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult and arduous.
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From abundance springs safety.
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