Greater is our terror of the unknown.
LIVYNo law is quite appropriate for all.
More Livy Quotes
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Great contests generally excite great animosities.
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We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
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Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.
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When Tarquin the Proud was asked what was the best mode of governing a conquered city, he replied only by beating down with his staff all the tallest poppies in his garden.
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In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.
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Envy, like flames, soars upwards.
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Valor is the soldier’s adornment.
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Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.
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Persevere in virtue and diligence.
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Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
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Men’s minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.
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Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.
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Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.
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Adversity reminds men of religion.
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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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