It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
LIVYIt is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
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A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.
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Valor is the soldier’s adornment.
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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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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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Envy, like flames, soars upwards.
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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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The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.
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The mind sins, not the body; if there is no intention, there is no blame.
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A woman’s mind is affected by the meanest gifts.
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Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.
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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.
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Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.
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Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.
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