No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
LIVYProsperity engenders sloth.
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Adversity reminds men of religion.
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Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.
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The study of History is the best medicine for a sick mind.
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Never is work without reward, or reward without work.
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A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.
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Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
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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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He will have true glory who despises it.
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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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Luck rules every human endeavor, especially war.
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Men’s minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.
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We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
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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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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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War is just to those for whom it is necessary, and arms are clear of impiety for those who have no hope left but in arms.
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