A certain peace is better and safer than a victory in prospect; the former is at your own disposal, the latter depends upon the gods.
LIVYIt is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself – something that’s in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered.
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Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.
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Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
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Great contests generally excite great animosities.
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No one wants to be excelled by his relatives.
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The name of freedom regained is sweet to hear.
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Envy, like flames, soars upwards.
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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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It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
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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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This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
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Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.
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A woman’s mind is affected by the meanest gifts.
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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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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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