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- There is always more spirit in attack than in defence.
- Titus Livius (59 BC - 17 AD)
- O wise man, wash your hands of that friend who associates with your enemies.
- Saadi (1184 - 1291)
- The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.
- Titus Livius (59 BC - 17 AD)
- Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes.
- Titus Livius (59 BC - 17 AD)
- Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
- Titus Livius (59 BC - 17 AD)
- Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.
- Titus Livius (59 BC - 17 AD)
- In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
- Titus Livius (59 BC - 17 AD)
- I approach these questions unwillingly, as they are sore subjects, but no cure can be effected without touching upon and handling them.
- Titus Livius (59 BC - 17 AD)
- Greater is our terror of the unknown.
- Titus Livius (59 BC - 17 AD)
- Nature does not proceed by leaps.
- Linnaeus (1707 - 1778)
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