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.
LIVYShared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.
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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
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In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
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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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Nothing hurts worse than the loss of money.
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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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Adversity makes men remember God.
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It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult and arduous.
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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
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When Tarquin the Proud was asked what was the best mode of governing a conquered city, he replied only by beating down with his staff all the tallest poppies in his garden.
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The name of freedom regained is sweet to hear.
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No man likes to be surpassed by those of his own level.
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Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.
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