It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
LIVYWit is the flower of the imagination.
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The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.
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In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
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A certain peace is better and safer than a victory in prospect; the former is at your own disposal, the latter depends upon the gods.
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Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.
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Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.
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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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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
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He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune’s breeze is favorable, or cast down when it is adverse.
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No law is quite appropriate for all.
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Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.
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No one wants to be excelled by his relatives.
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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 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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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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A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.
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