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.
LIVYTemerity is not always successful.
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Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
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Temerity is not always successful.
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There are laws for peace as well as war.
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Woe to the conquered.
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In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.
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Nothing hurts worse than the loss of money.
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Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.
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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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Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
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A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.
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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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No man likes to be surpassed by those of his own level.
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Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.
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Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.
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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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