No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
LIVYNecessity is the last and strongest weapon.
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The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.
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Envy, like flames, soars upwards.
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In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.
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Nothing hurts worse 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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The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.
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Never is work without reward, or reward without work.
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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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In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
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A woman’s mind is affected by the meanest gifts.
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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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Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.
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It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult and arduous.
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