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.
LivyThis above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
LivyHe 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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