This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
LIVYNowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
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Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.
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From abundance springs safety.
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Wit is the flower of the imagination.
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Prosperity engenders sloth.
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That business does not prosper which you transact with the eyes of others.
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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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There is always more spirit in attack than in defence.
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Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.
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There are laws for peace as well as war.
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Nothing hurts worse than the loss of money.
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Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.
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Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.
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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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This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
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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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