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.
LIVYToil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
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No law is quite appropriate for all.
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A woman’s mind is affected by the meanest gifts.
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Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.
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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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From abundance springs safety.
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Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
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No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
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Persevere in virtue and diligence.
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We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
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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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The sun has not yet set for all time.
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It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult and arduous.
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There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.
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Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.
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Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.
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