Luck rules every human endeavor, especially war.
LIVYIn difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
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No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
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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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Envy, like flames, soars upwards.
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Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.
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There are laws for peace as well as war.
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The name of freedom regained is sweet to hear.
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The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.
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A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.
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It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
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Greater is our terror of the unknown.
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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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Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.
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Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.
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No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
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Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
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