The study of History is the best medicine for a sick mind.
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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An honor prudently declined often returns with increased luster.
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It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
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No man likes to be surpassed by those of his own level.
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Wit is the flower of the imagination.
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Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.
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That business does not prosper which you transact with the eyes of others.
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No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
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Better and safer is an assured peace than a victory hoped for. The one is in your own power, the other is in the hands of the gods.
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There is always more spirit in attack than in defence.
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A woman’s mind is affected by the meanest gifts.
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Greater is our terror of the unknown.
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Nothing hurts worse than the loss of money.
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Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.
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Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.
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Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
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