In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
LIVYNo crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
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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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The study of History is the best medicine for a sick mind.
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I have often heard that the outstanding man is he who thinks deeply about a problem, and the next is he who listens carefully to advice.
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War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
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The mind sins, not the body; if there is no intention, there is no blame.
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Great contests generally excite great animosities.
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There is always more spirit in attack than in defence.
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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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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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An honor prudently declined often returns with increased luster.
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Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
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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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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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Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.
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