Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.
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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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Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.
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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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No man likes to be surpassed by those of his own level.
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In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
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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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Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.
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There is always more spirit in attack than in defence.
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That business does not prosper which you transact with the eyes of others.
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Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
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Men’s minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.
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Temerity is not always successful.
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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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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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Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
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Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
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There are laws for peace as well as war.
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