It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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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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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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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War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
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Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.
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Adversity reminds men of religion.
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Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.
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All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.
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Luck rules every human endeavor, especially war.
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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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Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.
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Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.
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Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.
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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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Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
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