Persevere in virtue and diligence.
LIVYIt is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
More Livy Quotes
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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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The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.
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War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
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Great contests generally excite great animosities.
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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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In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
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In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.
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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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Valor is the soldier’s adornment.
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A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.
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The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.
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He will have true glory who despises it.
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Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
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There are laws for peace as well as war.
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We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
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There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.
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It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
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The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.
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We feel public misfortunes just so far as they affect our private circumstances, and nothing of this nature appeals more directly to us than the loss of money.
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Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.
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A certain peace is better and safer than a victory in prospect; the former is at your own disposal, the latter depends upon the gods.
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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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That business does not prosper which you transact with the eyes of others.
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A woman’s mind is affected by the meanest gifts.
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Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.
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