We feel public misfortunes just so far as they affect our private circumstances, and nothing of this nature appeals more directly to us than the loss of money.
LIVYThe old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.
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We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
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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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Greater is our terror of the unknown.
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No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
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Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.
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No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
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The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself – something that’s in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered.
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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 when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
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No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
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That business does not prosper which you transact with the eyes of others.
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Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.
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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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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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War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
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