In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
LIVYIt is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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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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Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
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Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.
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Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.
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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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Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.
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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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In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.
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Valor is the soldier’s adornment.
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The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself – something that’s in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered.
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Bad beginnings, bad endings.
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Envy, like flames, soars upwards.
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It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
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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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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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