Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
LIVYLuck rules every human endeavor, especially war.
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Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies’ resources, and minimized their own.
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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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Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.
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Adversity makes men remember God.
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Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.
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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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Luck rules every human endeavor, especially war.
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Envy, like flames, soars upwards.
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No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority.
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No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
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Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.
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Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.
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A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.
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In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
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No one wants to be excelled by his relatives.
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