All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.
LIVYThe study of History is the best medicine for a sick mind.
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Greater is our terror of the unknown.
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Temerity is not always successful.
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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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Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
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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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War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
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The name of freedom regained is sweet to hear.
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There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
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The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself – something that’s in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered.
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Envy, like flames, soars upwards.
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In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
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No man likes to be surpassed by those of his own level.
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War is just to those for whom it is necessary, and arms are clear of impiety for those who have no hope left but in arms.
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