Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
LIVYMany things complicated by nature are restored by reason.
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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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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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Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.
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No man likes to be surpassed by those of his own level.
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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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The name of freedom regained is sweet to hear.
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A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.
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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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Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.
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Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.
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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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Great contests generally excite great animosities.
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