Prosperity engenders sloth.
LIVYAn honor prudently declined often returns with increased luster.
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Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.
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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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The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.
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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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Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.
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The less there is of fear, the less there is of danger.
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No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
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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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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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This was the Athenians’ war against the King of Macedon, a war of words. Words are the only weapons the Athenians have left.
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We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
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Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.
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War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
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A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.
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Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
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