The sun has not yet set for all time.
LIVYTruth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.
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It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
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There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.
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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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Valor is the soldier’s adornment.
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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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Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.
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Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
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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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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.
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Luck rules every human endeavor, especially war.
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Wit is the flower of the imagination.
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A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.
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The result showed that fortune helps the brave.
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Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.
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