Never is work without reward, or reward without work.
LIVYValor is the soldier’s adornment.
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I have often heard that the outstanding man is he who thinks deeply about a problem, and the next is he who listens carefully to advice.
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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
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Better and safer is an assured peace than a victory hoped for. The one is in your own power, the other is in the hands of the gods.
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We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
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Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.
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The less there is of fear, the less there is of danger.
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It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
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Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
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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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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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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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Necessity is the last and strongest weapon.
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Men’s minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.
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Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.
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