Temerity is not always successful.
LIVYThe sun has not yet set for all time.
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A woman’s mind is affected by the meanest gifts.
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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
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Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.
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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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The name of freedom regained is sweet to hear.
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Valor is the soldier’s adornment.
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Luck rules every human endeavor, especially war.
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We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.
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When Tarquin the Proud was asked what was the best mode of governing a conquered city, he replied only by beating down with his staff all the tallest poppies in his garden.
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Envy, like flames, soars upwards.
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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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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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