We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
LIVYIn difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
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That business does not prosper which you transact with the eyes of others.
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Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.
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Envy, like flames, soars upwards.
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The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.
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Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.
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Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.
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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
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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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The less there is of fear, the less there is of danger.
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He will have true glory who despises it.
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Woe to the conquered.
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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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Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those 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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The mind sins, not the body; if there is no intention, there is no blame.
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