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.
LIVYDignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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Better and safer is an assured peace than a victory hoped for. The one is in your own power, the other is in the hands of the gods.
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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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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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Adversity reminds men of religion.
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There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
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There are laws for peace as well as war.
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Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies’ resources, and minimized their own.
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War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
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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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Woe to the conquered.
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Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.
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It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
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The mind sins, not the body; if there is no intention, there is no blame.
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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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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 woman’s mind is affected by the meanest gifts.
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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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Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.
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We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
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War is just to those for whom it is necessary, and arms are clear of impiety for those who have no hope left but in arms.
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I have often heard that the outstanding man is he who thinks deeply about a problem, and the next is he who listens carefully to advice.
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In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.
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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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Temerity is not always successful.
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No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
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