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.
LIVYThere are laws for peace as well as war.
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Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.
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Bad beginnings, bad endings.
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Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.
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Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.
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In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
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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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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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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
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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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Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.
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The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself – something that’s in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered.
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Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.
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The sun has not yet set for all time.
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