No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
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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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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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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All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.
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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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In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.
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Wit is the flower of the imagination.
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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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In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.
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War is just to those for whom it is necessary, and arms are clear of impiety for those who have no hope left but in arms.
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Prosperity engenders sloth.
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There are laws for peace as well as war.
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Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.
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The sun has not yet set for all time.
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Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.
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