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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No man likes to be surpassed by those of his own level.
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Woe to the conquered.
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Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
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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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The mind sins, not the body; if there is no intention, there is no blame.
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We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
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Great contests generally excite great animosities.
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The less there is of fear, the less there is of danger.
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It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
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Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.
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Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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Bad beginnings, bad endings.
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