It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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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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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Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.
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Wit is the flower of the imagination.
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It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
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No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
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We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
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War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
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Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.
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Men’s minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.
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No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
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Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.
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Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.
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The sun has not yet set for all time.
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In war, mere appearances have had all the effect of realities; and that a person, under a firm persuasion that he can command resources, virtually has them; that very prospect inspiring him with hope and boldness in his exertions.
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The less there is of fear, the less there is of danger.
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