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.
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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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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Adversity reminds men of religion.
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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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We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
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Luck rules every human endeavor, especially war.
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Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.
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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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Envy, like flames, soars upwards.
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Men’s minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.
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Wit is the flower of the imagination.
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Nothing hurts worse than the loss of money.
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The result showed that fortune helps the brave.
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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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It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
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I have often heard that the outstanding man is he who thinks deeply about a problem, and the next is he who listens carefully to advice.
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He will have true glory who despises it.
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In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
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Temerity is not always successful.
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We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
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Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.
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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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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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The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.
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Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.
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Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
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A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.
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