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.
LIVYDignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.
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Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
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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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War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
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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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Envy, like flames, soars upwards.
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Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.
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It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult and arduous.
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Valor is the soldier’s adornment.
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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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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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Men’s minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.
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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
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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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There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.
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