This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
LIVYTemerity is not always successful.
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No man likes to be surpassed by those of his own level.
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Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.
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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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No law is quite appropriate for all.
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Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.
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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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Prosperity engenders sloth.
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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 name of freedom regained is sweet to hear.
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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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There are laws for peace as well as war.
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He will have true glory who despises it.
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No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
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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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Persevere in virtue and diligence.
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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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Valor is the soldier’s adornment.
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A woman’s mind is affected by the meanest gifts.
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It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
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Luck rules every human endeavor, especially war.
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An honor prudently declined often returns with increased luster.
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Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.
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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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Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
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