This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
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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When Tarquin the Proud was asked what was the best mode of governing a conquered city, he replied only by beating down with his staff all the tallest poppies in his garden.
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The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.
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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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We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
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Men’s minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.
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Greater is our terror of the unknown.
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The study of History is the best medicine for a sick mind.
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Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.
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The less there is of fear, the less there is of danger.
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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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Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
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Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.
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The mind sins, not the body; if there is no intention, there is no blame.
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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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There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
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