Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.
LIVYEvents of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
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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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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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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.
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The result showed that fortune helps the brave.
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Woe to the conquered.
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An honor prudently declined often returns with increased luster.
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Temerity is not always successful.
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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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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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No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
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The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.
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Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
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