There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
LIVYMen are slower to recognize blessings than evils.
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Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
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War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
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Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.
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Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.
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Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.
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From abundance springs safety.
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The study of History is the best medicine for a sick mind.
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Nothing hurts worse than the loss of money.
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There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.
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Necessity is the last and strongest weapon.
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Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.
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He will have true glory who despises it.
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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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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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