The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.
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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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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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In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
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We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
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Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
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Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.
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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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It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
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Men’s minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.
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The less there is of fear, the less there is of danger.
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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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Necessity is the last and strongest weapon.
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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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This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
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Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
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