We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
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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This was the Athenians’ war against the King of Macedon, a war of words. Words are the only weapons the Athenians have left.
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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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Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.
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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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Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.
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Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.
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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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There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.
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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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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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Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
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Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies’ resources, and minimized their own.
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Bad beginnings, bad endings.
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Woe to the conquered.
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