Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.
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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Great contests generally excite great animosities.
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No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
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The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.
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Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.
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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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There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.
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No one wants to be excelled by his relatives.
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Bad beginnings, bad endings.
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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
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Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
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It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
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The result showed that fortune helps the brave.
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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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War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
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War is just to those for whom it is necessary, and arms are clear of impiety for those who have no hope left but in arms.
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The less there is of fear, the less there is of danger.
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Wit is the flower of the imagination.
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Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.
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Greater is our terror of the unknown.
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Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.
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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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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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He will have true glory who despises it.
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We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
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