There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.
LIVYProsperity engenders sloth.
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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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The name of freedom regained is sweet to hear.
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Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies’ resources, and minimized their own.
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The result showed that fortune helps the brave.
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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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We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
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A certain peace is better and safer than a victory in prospect; the former is at your own disposal, the latter depends upon the gods.
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No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
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Bad beginnings, bad endings.
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There are laws for peace as well as war.
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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.
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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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No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
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Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
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