In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.
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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Better and safer is an assured peace than a victory hoped for. The one is in your own power, the other is in the hands of the gods.
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The result showed that fortune helps the brave.
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There are laws for peace as well as war.
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Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.
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The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.
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Nothing hurts worse than the loss of money.
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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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Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.
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He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune’s breeze is favorable, or cast down when it is adverse.
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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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Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.
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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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There is always more spirit in attack than in defence.
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Men’s minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.
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Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.
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