We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
LIVYThere is always more spirit in attack than in defence.
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Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.
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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
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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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No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
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In war, mere appearances have had all the effect of realities; and that a person, under a firm persuasion that he can command resources, virtually has them; that very prospect inspiring him with hope and boldness in his exertions.
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Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.
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We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
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The sun has not yet set for all time.
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Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.
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Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
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A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.
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Temerity is not always successful.
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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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