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.
LIVYIt is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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No man likes to be surpassed by those of his own level.
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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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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 moves more quickly than scandal.
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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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Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
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It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
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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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Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.
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Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.
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A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.
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We feel public misfortunes just so far as they affect our private circumstances, and nothing of this nature appeals more directly to us than the loss of money.
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No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
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Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.
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