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.
LIVYFame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.
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Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.
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No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
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Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.
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Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.
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Greater is our terror of the unknown.
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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 result showed that fortune helps the brave.
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There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.
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An honor prudently declined often returns with increased luster.
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No man likes to be surpassed by those of his own level.
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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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That business does not prosper which you transact with the eyes of others.
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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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The mind sins, not the body; if there is no intention, there is no blame.
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Such is the nature of crowds: either they are humble and servile or arrogant and dominating. They are incapable of making moderate use of freedom, which is the middle course, or of keeping it.
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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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A woman’s mind is affected by the meanest gifts.
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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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This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
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Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
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Temerity is not always successful.
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From abundance springs safety.
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Envy, like flames, soars upwards.
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Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.
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Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
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A certain peace is better and safer than a victory in prospect; the former is at your own disposal, the latter depends upon the gods.
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