No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
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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Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.
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Luck rules every human endeavor, especially war.
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We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
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No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
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Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
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Wit is the flower of the imagination.
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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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An honor prudently declined often returns with increased luster.
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Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.
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Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.
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Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.
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Persevere in virtue and diligence.
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There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
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