Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.
LIVYNo law is sufficiently convenient to all.
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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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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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Such is the nature of crowds: either they are humble and servile or arrogant and dominating. They are incapable of making moderate use of freedom, which is the middle course, or of keeping it.
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The result showed that fortune helps the brave.
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Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.
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Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
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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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Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.
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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
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In war, mere appearances have had all the effect of realities; and that a person, under a firm persuasion that he can command resources, virtually has them; that very prospect inspiring him with hope and boldness in his exertions.
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Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.
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There are laws for peace as well as war.
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Envy, like flames, soars upwards.
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Great contests generally excite great animosities.
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