A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.
LIVYToil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
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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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Woe to the conquered.
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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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We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
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He will have true glory who despises it.
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Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.
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It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
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The mind sins, not the body; if there is no intention, there is no blame.
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War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
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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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Nowhere 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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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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When Tarquin the Proud was asked what was the best mode of governing a conquered city, he replied only by beating down with his staff all the tallest poppies in his garden.
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