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.
LIVYThe troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.
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The result showed that fortune helps the brave.
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Never is work without reward, or reward without work.
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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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Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.
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Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.
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The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.
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A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.
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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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There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
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Nothing hurts worse than the loss of money.
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We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
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Adversity makes men remember God.
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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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It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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