Adversity reminds men of religion.
LIVYMany things complicated by nature are restored by reason.
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Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.
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Woe to the conquered.
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Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.
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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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War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
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All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.
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Never is work without reward, or reward without work.
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A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.
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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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Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
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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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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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In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.
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Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.
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Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.
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Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.
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The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.
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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.
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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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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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Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.
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The study of History is the best medicine for a sick mind.
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Nothing hurts worse than the loss of money.
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Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.
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The sun has not yet set for all time.
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