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.
LIVYA woman’s mind is affected by the meanest gifts.
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No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
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The sun has not yet set for all time.
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Persevere in virtue and diligence.
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War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
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Envy, like flames, soars upwards.
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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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Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.
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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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The result showed that fortune helps the brave.
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Necessity is the last and strongest weapon.
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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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Bad beginnings, bad endings.
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No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
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We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
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Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.
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