No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
LIVYMen are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
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Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.
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The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself – something that’s in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered.
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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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No man likes to be surpassed by those of his own level.
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From abundance springs safety.
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The study of History is the best medicine for a sick mind.
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Nothing hurts worse than the loss of money.
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In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.
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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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Necessity is the last and strongest weapon.
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Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.
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Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
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No one wants to be excelled by his relatives.
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Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.
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In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
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