Greater is our terror of the unknown.
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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Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.
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Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
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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 difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
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Adversity makes men remember God.
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There are laws for peace as well as war.
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The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.
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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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No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
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In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.
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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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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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Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.
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Nothing hurts worse than the loss of money.
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