No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
LIVYNothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.
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Bad beginnings, bad endings.
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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
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The study of History is the best medicine for a sick mind.
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Men’s minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.
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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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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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Necessity is the last and strongest weapon.
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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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Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.
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Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
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A woman’s mind is affected by the meanest gifts.
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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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We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
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