From abundance springs safety.
LIVYWar is just to those to whom war is necessary.
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The sun has not yet set for all time.
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He will have true glory who despises it.
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The less there is of fear, the less there is of danger.
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Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
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We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
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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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There is always more spirit in attack than in defence.
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No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
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We feel public misfortunes just so far as they affect our private circumstances, and nothing of this nature appeals more directly to us than the loss of money.
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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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Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.
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Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
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Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.
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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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Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.
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