Bad beginnings, bad endings.
LIVYThere is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.
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I have often heard that the outstanding man is he who thinks deeply about a problem, and the next is he who listens carefully to advice.
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Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.
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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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No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
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There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.
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Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
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Envy, like flames, soars upwards.
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No one wants to be excelled by his relatives.
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There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.
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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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The less there is of fear, the less there is of danger.
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From abundance springs safety.
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This was the Athenians’ war against the King of Macedon, a war of words. Words are the only weapons the Athenians have left.
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The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.
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Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.
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