The sun has not yet set for all time.
LIVYAll things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.
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Greater is our terror of the unknown.
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He will have true glory who despises it.
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Temerity is not always successful.
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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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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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Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.
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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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We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
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There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.
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A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.
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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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Bad beginnings, bad endings.
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No one wants to be excelled by his relatives.
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War is just to those for whom it is necessary, and arms are clear of impiety for those who have no hope left but in arms.
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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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The less there is of fear, the less there is of danger.
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Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.
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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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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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Envy, like flames, soars upwards.
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It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
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Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
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The mind sins, not the body; if there is no intention, there is no blame.
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Great contests generally excite great animosities.
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Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.
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