The mind sins, not the body; if there is no intention, there is no blame.
LIVYA gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.
More Livy Quotes
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The study of History is the best medicine for a sick mind.
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Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.
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There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.
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Prosperity engenders sloth.
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Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
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All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.
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Adversity makes men remember God.
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The result showed that fortune helps the brave.
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We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
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Envy, like flames, soars upwards.
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Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.
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He 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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Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.
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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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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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