Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.
LIVYLuck rules every human endeavor, especially war.
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Great contests generally excite great animosities.
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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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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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Prosperity engenders sloth.
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In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
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In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.
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We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
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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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Temerity is not always successful.
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We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
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Never is work without reward, or reward without work.
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Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.
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Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.
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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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Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.
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