This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
LIVYThis 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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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
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War is just to those for whom it is necessary, and arms are clear of impiety for those who have no hope left but in arms.
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Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.
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Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.
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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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Great contests generally excite great animosities.
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He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune’s breeze is favorable, or cast down when it is adverse.
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There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.
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There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
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No one wants to be excelled by his relatives.
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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 man likes to be surpassed by those of his own level.
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Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
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Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.
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We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
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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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Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.
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Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.
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No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
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Necessity is the last and strongest weapon.
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In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
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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.
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From abundance springs safety.
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Woe to the conquered.
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It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult and arduous.
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