That business does not prosper which you transact with the eyes of others.
LIVYProsperity engenders sloth.
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War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
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Never is work without reward, or reward without work.
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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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Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
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Prosperity engenders sloth.
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Bad beginnings, bad endings.
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Adversity makes men remember God.
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In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.
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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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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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The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.
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A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.
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Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.
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No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
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Wit is the flower of the imagination.
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