The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.
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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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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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Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in 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 that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.
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War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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No one wants to be excelled by his relatives.
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Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.
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A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.
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No law is quite appropriate for all.
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This was the Athenians’ war against the King of Macedon, a war of words. Words are the only weapons the Athenians have left.
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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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In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.
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The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.
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The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.
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