There are laws for peace as well as war.
LIVYNo crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
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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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Valor is the soldier’s adornment.
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The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.
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Temerity is not always successful.
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That business does not prosper which you transact with the eyes of others.
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Wit is the flower of the imagination.
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Better and safer is an assured peace than a victory hoped for. The one is in your own power, the other is in the hands of the gods.
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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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The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.
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Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.
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The name of freedom regained is sweet to hear.
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In war, mere appearances have had all the effect of realities; and that a person, under a firm persuasion that he can command resources, virtually has them; that very prospect inspiring him with hope and boldness in his exertions.
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It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
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Greater is our terror of the unknown.
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Woe to the conquered.
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