From abundance springs safety.
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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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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In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.
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We feel public misfortunes just so far as they affect our private circumstances, and nothing of this nature appeals more directly to us than the loss of money.
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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.
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I have often heard that the outstanding man is he who thinks deeply about a problem, and the next is he who listens carefully to advice.
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Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
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Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
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The study of History is the best medicine for a sick mind.
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Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.
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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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A woman’s mind is affected by the meanest gifts.
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Woe to the conquered.
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Envy, like flames, soars upwards.
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Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.
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