The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.
LIVYTruth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
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Valor is the soldier’s adornment.
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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 populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.
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Envy, like flames, soars upwards.
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There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.
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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 law is quite appropriate for all.
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No one wants to be excelled by his relatives.
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Necessity is the last and strongest weapon.
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A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.
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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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There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
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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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Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.
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The mind sins, not the body; if there is no intention, there is no blame.
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