Livy on adversity
Livy104 quotes“We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.”
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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
LivyLivy 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.
LivyLivy 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.
LivyLivy 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.
LivyLivy This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
LivyLivy This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
LivyLivy This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
LivyLivy Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.
LivyLivy Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.
LivyLivy The mind sins, not the body; if there is no intention, there is no blame.
LivyLivy Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.
LivyLivy Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.
LivyLivy An honor prudently declined often returns with increased luster.
LivyLivy The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.
LivyLivy Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.
LivyLivy Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.
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