Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
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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Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.
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Wit is the flower of the imagination.
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Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.
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Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
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Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.
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Great contests generally excite great animosities.
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No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
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Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.
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In war, mere appearances have had all the effect of realities; and that a person, under a firm persuasion that he can command resources, virtually has them; that very prospect inspiring him with hope and boldness in his exertions.
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Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.
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Such is the nature of crowds: either they are humble and servile or arrogant and dominating. They are incapable of making moderate use of freedom, which is the middle course, or of keeping it.
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There are laws for peace as well as war.
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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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There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.
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No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
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