No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
LIVYThe study of History is the best medicine for a sick mind.
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Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.
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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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A certain peace is better and safer than a victory in prospect; the former is at your own disposal, the latter depends upon the gods.
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Persevere in virtue and diligence.
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Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
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Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.
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Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.
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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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No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority.
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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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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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This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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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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