Better and safer is an assured peace than a victory hoped for. The one is in your own power, the other is in the hands of the gods.
LIVYMany things complicated by nature are restored by reason.
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The result showed that fortune helps the brave.
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Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.
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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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The sun has not yet set for all time.
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Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.
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In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
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The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.
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No one wants to be excelled by his relatives.
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Nothing hurts worse than the loss of money.
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There are laws for peace as well as war.
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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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Persevere in virtue and diligence.
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Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.
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Luck rules every human endeavor, especially war.
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No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority.
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