The result showed that fortune helps the brave.
LIVYIt is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.
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He will have true glory who despises it.
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Persevere in virtue and diligence.
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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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Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.
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Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.
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Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
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Luck rules every human endeavor, especially war.
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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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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
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Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.
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There is always more spirit in attack than in defence.
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A woman’s mind is affected by the meanest gifts.
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There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.
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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
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Bad beginnings, bad endings.
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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 can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority.
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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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Nothing hurts worse than the loss of money.
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Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.
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There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
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No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
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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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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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