This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
LIVYNever is work without reward, or reward without work.
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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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The sun has not yet set for all time.
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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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The less there is of fear, the less there is of danger.
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The result showed that fortune helps the brave.
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Nothing hurts worse than the loss of money.
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The name of freedom regained is sweet to hear.
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Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.
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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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Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.
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No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
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Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
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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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This was the Athenians’ war against the King of Macedon, a war of words. Words are the only weapons the Athenians have left.
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Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.
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