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1  Whereupon, the Veientines, like those others of whom mention has just now been made, had to pay the penalty of their insolence.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXVI.
2  Yet neither of them ever ventured to strike the blow; till at last, their scheme being discovered, they paid the penalty of their combined cowardice and temerity.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI.
3  In the end, the rebels having no leader to advise them, and perceiving too late the error into which they had been betrayed, had to pay the penalty of their rashness by perpetual banishment.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI.
4  Such was the penalty incurred by one who was silent when he should have spoken, and who spoke when he should have been silent; and who found no escape from danger in having refrained from giving advice.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXXV.
5  For which reason, and because they thought that to such persons the mere ignominy of defeat was in itself punishment enough, they would not dishearten their generals by inflicting on them any heavier penalty.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXXI.
6  So that we cannot truly declare those tumults to have been disastrous, or that republic to have been disorderly, which during all that time, on account of her internal broils, banished no more than eight or ten of her citizens, put very few to death, and rarely inflicted money penalties.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV.
7  After the ruin brought on their country by the invasion of the Gauls, many of the Romans went to dwell in Veii, in opposition to the edicts and commands of the senate, who, to correct this mischief, publicly ordained that within a time fixed, and under penalties stated, all should return to live in Rome.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER LVII.