A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.
LIVYMany 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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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.
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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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The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.
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Never is work without reward, or reward without work.
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We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
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Bad beginnings, bad endings.
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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.
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The study of History is the best medicine for a sick mind.
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Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.
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Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.
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No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
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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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We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
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