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.
LIVYMany things complicated by nature are restored by reason.
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Nothing hurts worse than the loss of money.
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Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
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The study of History is the best medicine for a sick mind.
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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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There is always more spirit in attack than in defence.
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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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I have often heard that the outstanding man is he who thinks deeply about a problem, and the next is he who listens carefully to advice.
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A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.
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We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
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In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.
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Woe to the conquered.
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There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
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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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A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.
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