No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
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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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
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Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
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A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.
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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 difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
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Wit is the flower of the imagination.
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Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.
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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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Adversity reminds men of religion.
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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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There is always more spirit in attack than in defence.
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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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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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