It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
LIVYNo crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
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There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.
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Envy, like flames, soars upwards.
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Persevere in virtue and diligence.
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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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Such is the nature of crowds: either they are humble and servile or arrogant and dominating. They are incapable of making moderate use of freedom, which is the middle course, or of keeping it.
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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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Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.
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Greater is our terror of the unknown.
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He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune’s breeze is favorable, or cast down when it is adverse.
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It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult and arduous.
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War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
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Temerity is not always successful.
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Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.
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The sun has not yet set for all time.
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There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
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