We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
LIVYThat business does not prosper which you transact with the eyes of others.
More Livy Quotes
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Woe to the conquered.
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Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
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This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
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Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.
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There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.
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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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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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I have often heard that the outstanding man is he who thinks deeply about a problem, and the next is he who listens carefully to advice.
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From abundance springs safety.
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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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No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
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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 reminds men of religion.
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Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.
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The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself – something that’s in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered.
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