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.
LIVYMany difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.
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Great contests generally excite great animosities.
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There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
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Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.
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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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Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.
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War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
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Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.
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Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.
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War is just to those for whom it is necessary, and arms are clear of impiety for those who have no hope left but in arms.
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Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
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Temerity is not always successful.
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Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
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Luck rules every human endeavor, especially war.
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In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.
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Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.
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