No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
LIVYMen are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.
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Never is work without reward, or reward without work.
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The name of freedom regained is sweet to hear.
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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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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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The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.
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We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
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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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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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Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.
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No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
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Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.
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Bad beginnings, bad endings.
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Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.
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Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.
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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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