The less there is of fear, the less there is of danger.
LIVYEvents of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
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Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.
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Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.
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The name of freedom regained is sweet to hear.
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The sun has not yet set for all time.
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Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
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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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Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.
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Men’s minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.
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Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
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Such is the nature of crowds: either they are humble and servile or arrogant and dominating. They are incapable of making moderate use of freedom, which is the middle course, or of keeping it.
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Bad beginnings, bad endings.
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Envy, like flames, soars upwards.
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A woman’s mind is affected by the meanest gifts.
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Nothing hurts worse than the loss of money.
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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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