Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.
LIVYTruth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
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Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
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Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.
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We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
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The less there is of fear, the less there is of danger.
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In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
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Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
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There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.
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No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
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A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.
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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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Men’s minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.
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Necessity is the last and strongest weapon.
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Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.
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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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Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.
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