Such is the nature of crowds: either they are humble and servile or arrogant and dominating. They are incapable of making moderate use of freedom, which is the middle course, or of keeping it.
LIVYNo one wants to be excelled by his relatives.
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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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Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.
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He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune’s breeze is favorable, or cast down when it is adverse.
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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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The name of freedom regained is sweet to hear.
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We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
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Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.
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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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Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.
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Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.
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There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
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In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
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Bad beginnings, bad endings.
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Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
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No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
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