No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
LIVYTruth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.
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Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.
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Envy, like flames, soars upwards.
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No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.
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Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.
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Necessity is the last and strongest weapon.
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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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The less there is of fear, the less there is of danger.
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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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Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
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Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.
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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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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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Better and safer is an assured peace than a victory hoped for. The one is in your own power, the other is in the hands of the gods.
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