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.
LIVYNever is work without reward, or reward without work.
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Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.
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The name of freedom regained is sweet to hear.
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We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
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The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.
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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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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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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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The mind sins, not the body; if there is no intention, there is no blame.
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No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
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No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority.
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The sun has not yet set for all time.
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War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
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No one wants to be excelled by his relatives.
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No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
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Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
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