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.
LIVYTruth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
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Greater is our terror of the unknown.
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We feel public misfortunes just so far as they affect our private circumstances, and nothing of this nature appeals more directly to us than the loss of money.
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Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.
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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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Men’s minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.
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The result showed that fortune helps the brave.
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Wit is the flower of the imagination.
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Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.
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No law is quite appropriate for all.
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There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.
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Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
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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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It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
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Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
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Valor is the soldier’s adornment.
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