Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
LIVYThe populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.
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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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Greater is our terror of the unknown.
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No one wants to be excelled by his relatives.
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No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
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There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.
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Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.
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We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
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Necessity is the last and strongest weapon.
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The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.
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We feel public misfortunes just so far as they affect our private circumstances, and nothing of this nature appeals more directly to us than the loss of money.
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Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.
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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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There are laws for peace as well as war.
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Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.
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Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
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He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune’s breeze is favorable, or cast down when it is adverse.
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Woe to the conquered.
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A woman’s mind is affected by the meanest gifts.
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A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.
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All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.
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Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.
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No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority.
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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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Temerity is not always successful.
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Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.
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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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