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.
LIVYIn difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
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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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No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
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Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.
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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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War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
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From abundance springs safety.
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We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
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The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.
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No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
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Adversity reminds men of religion.
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There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.
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When Tarquin the Proud was asked what was the best mode of governing a conquered city, he replied only by beating down with his staff all the tallest poppies in his garden.
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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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Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
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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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