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.
LIVYThe less there is of fear, the less there is of danger.
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Adversity makes men remember God.
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No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
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Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.
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Great contests generally excite great animosities.
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Greater is our terror of the unknown.
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The sun has not yet set for all time.
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Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.
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Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
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Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.
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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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In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.
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Persevere in virtue and diligence.
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He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune’s breeze is favorable, or cast down when it is adverse.
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There are laws for peace as well as war.
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There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.
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