In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.
LIVYTemerity is not always successful.
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Persevere in virtue and diligence.
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Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.
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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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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 survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
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A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.
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Temerity is not always successful.
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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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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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Nothing hurts worse than the loss of money.
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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
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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 crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
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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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Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
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