Valor is the soldier’s adornment.
LIVYBetter and safer is an assured peace than a victory hoped for. The one is in your own power, the other is in the hands of the gods.
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It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
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There are laws for peace as well as war.
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We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
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Men’s minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.
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Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.
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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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Adversity makes men remember God.
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There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.
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No man likes to be surpassed by those of his own level.
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Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.
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In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
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In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.
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Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.
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Never is work without reward, or reward without work.
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Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.
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