Bad beginnings, bad endings.
LIVYIn grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.
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The result showed that fortune helps the brave.
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We feel public misfortunes just so far as they affect our private circumstances, and nothing of this nature appeals more directly to us than the loss of money.
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Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.
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Great contests generally excite great animosities.
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No law is quite appropriate for all.
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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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We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
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The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.
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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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War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
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Woe to the conquered.
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No one wants to be excelled by his relatives.
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We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
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Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.
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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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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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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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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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In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.
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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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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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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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Never is work without reward, or reward without work.
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He will have true glory who despises it.
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It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
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