No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
LIVYWar 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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The name of freedom regained is sweet to hear.
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We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
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This was the Athenians’ war against the King of Macedon, a war of words. Words are the only weapons the Athenians have left.
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Envy, like flames, soars upwards.
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Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.
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All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.
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Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
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When Tarquin the Proud was asked what was the best mode of governing a conquered city, he replied only by beating down with his staff all the tallest poppies in his garden.
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The mind sins, not the body; if there is no intention, there is no blame.
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Bad beginnings, bad endings.
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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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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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Great contests generally excite great animosities.
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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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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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