Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.
LIVYAdversity makes men remember God.
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It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
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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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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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Prosperity engenders sloth.
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The result showed that fortune helps the brave.
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Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
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This was the Athenians’ war against the King of Macedon, a war of words. Words are the only weapons the Athenians have left.
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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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Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.
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The mind sins, not the body; if there is no intention, there is no blame.
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The sun has not yet set for all time.
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Woe to the conquered.
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Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.
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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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