Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
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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Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
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Luck rules every human endeavor, especially war.
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Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.
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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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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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Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.
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From abundance springs safety.
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The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.
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No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
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It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
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No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
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No law is quite appropriate for all.
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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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Men’s minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.
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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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