It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
LIVYAn honor prudently declined often returns with increased luster.
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We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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Valor is the soldier’s adornment.
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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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Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.
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Persevere in virtue and diligence.
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Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.
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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
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An honor prudently declined often returns with increased luster.
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Woe to the conquered.
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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.
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Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.
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The result showed that fortune helps the brave.
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No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
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There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.
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Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.
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In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.
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Wit is the flower of the imagination.
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It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
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The study of History is the best medicine for a sick mind.
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Men’s minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.
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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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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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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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The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.
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Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
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