Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
LIVYIt is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
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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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Woe to the conquered.
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No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
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Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
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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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He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune’s breeze is favorable, or cast down when it is adverse.
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No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
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Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
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Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.
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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
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Greater is our terror of the unknown.
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The sun has not yet set for all time.
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The less there is of fear, the less there is of danger.
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There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.
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