Such is the nature of crowds: either they are humble and servile or arrogant and dominating. They are incapable of making moderate use of freedom, which is the middle course, or of keeping it.
LIVYNo wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
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Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
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Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.
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No one wants to be excelled by his relatives.
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Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.
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Never is work without reward, or reward without work.
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Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.
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In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.
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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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War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
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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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Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.
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Necessity is the last and strongest weapon.
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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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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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No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
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