Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
LIVYSuch 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 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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Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
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It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
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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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Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies’ resources, and minimized their own.
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When Tarquin the Proud was asked what was the best mode of governing a conquered city, he replied only by beating down with his staff all the tallest poppies in his garden.
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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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Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.
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Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.
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Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.
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Woe to the conquered.
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There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.
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Greater is our terror of the unknown.
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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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