Never is work without reward, or reward without work.
LIVYLaw 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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Valor is the soldier’s adornment.
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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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Temerity is not always successful.
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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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Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.
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We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
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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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Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.
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Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies’ resources, and minimized their own.
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There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.
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No law is quite appropriate for all.
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Adversity makes men remember God.
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Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
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Great contests generally excite great animosities.
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The sun has not yet set for all time.
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