In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
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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Bad beginnings, bad endings.
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Valor is the soldier’s adornment.
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Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.
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No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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The less there is of fear, the less there is of danger.
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The result showed that fortune helps the brave.
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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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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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No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority.
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He will have true glory who despises it.
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Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.
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Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
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The name of freedom regained is sweet to hear.
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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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