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.
LIVYProsperity engenders sloth.
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It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
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He will have true glory who despises it.
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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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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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Never is work without reward, or reward without work.
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Temerity is not always successful.
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Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
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War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
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Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.
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Greater is our terror of the unknown.
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Envy, like flames, soars upwards.
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No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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Bad beginnings, bad endings.
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Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.
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