Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
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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Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.
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The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.
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Greater is our terror of the unknown.
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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
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Bad beginnings, bad endings.
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Never is work without reward, or reward without work.
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Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.
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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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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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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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Nothing hurts worse than the loss of money.
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In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.
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No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
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It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
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