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.
LIVYMen’s minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.
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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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We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
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From abundance springs safety.
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No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
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In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.
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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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An honor prudently declined often returns with increased luster.
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The less there is of fear, the less there is of danger.
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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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Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
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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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Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.
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A certain peace is better and safer than a victory in prospect; the former is at your own disposal, the latter depends upon the gods.
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Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
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That business does not prosper which you transact with the eyes of others.
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