Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
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 easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult and arduous.
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Men’s minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.
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There are laws for peace as well as war.
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No law is quite appropriate for all.
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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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A certain peace is better and safer than a victory in prospect; the former is at your own disposal, the latter depends upon the gods.
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We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
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The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.
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Bad beginnings, bad endings.
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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.
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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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An honor prudently declined often returns with increased luster.
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Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.
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The study of History is the best medicine for a sick mind.
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