In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.
LIVYThe troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.
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Bad beginnings, bad endings.
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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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No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
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Valor is the soldier’s adornment.
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We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
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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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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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The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.
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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.
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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 quite appropriate for all.
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He will have true glory who despises it.
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In war, mere appearances have had all the effect of realities; and that a person, under a firm persuasion that he can command resources, virtually has them; that very prospect inspiring him with hope and boldness in his exertions.
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In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
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