Temerity is not always successful.
LIVYNo one wants to be excelled by his relatives.
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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
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Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.
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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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Bad beginnings, bad endings.
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There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
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Great contests generally excite great animosities.
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Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.
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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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In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.
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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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The sun has not yet set for all time.
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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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Valor is the soldier’s adornment.
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No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
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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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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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The study of History is the best medicine for a sick mind.
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Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.
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Adversity makes men remember God.
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Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.
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Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.
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Greater is our terror of the unknown.
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Envy, like flames, soars upwards.
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No law is quite appropriate for all.
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It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult and arduous.
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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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