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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We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
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Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.
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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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Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.
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Never is work without reward, or reward without work.
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The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.
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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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Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.
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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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The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.
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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
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Wit is the flower of the imagination.
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In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
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