Adversity makes men remember God.
LIVYGreater is our terror of the unknown.
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Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.
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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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In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.
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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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That business does not prosper which you transact with the eyes of others.
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This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
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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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Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.
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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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Temerity is not always successful.
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He will have true glory who despises it.
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It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
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Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.
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Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
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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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