Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.
LIVYEnvy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.
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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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Temerity is not always successful.
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Men’s minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.
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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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Prosperity engenders sloth.
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We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
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Nothing hurts worse than the loss of money.
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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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Adversity makes men remember God.
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Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.
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The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself – something that’s in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered.
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Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.
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No man likes to be surpassed by those of his own level.
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Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
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