Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.
LIVYIn difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
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Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.
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The result showed that fortune helps the brave.
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We feel public misfortunes just so far as they affect our private circumstances, and nothing of this nature appeals more directly to us than the loss of money.
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No law is quite appropriate for all.
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The sun has not yet set for all time.
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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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Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.
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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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Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.
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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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Prosperity engenders sloth.
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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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No one wants to be excelled by his relatives.
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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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Temerity is not always successful.
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