No law is quite appropriate for all.
LIVYNo wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
More Livy Quotes
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Better and safer is an assured peace than a victory hoped for. The one is in your own power, the other is in the hands of the gods.
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Nothing hurts worse than the loss of money.
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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
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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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From abundance springs safety.
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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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War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
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The name of freedom regained is sweet to hear.
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No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
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No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
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Temerity is not always successful.
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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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Greater is our terror of the unknown.
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Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
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There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
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Luck rules every human endeavor, especially war.
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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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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 wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
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In war, mere appearances have had all the effect of realities; and that a person, under a firm persuasion that he can command resources, virtually has them; that very prospect inspiring him with hope and boldness in his exertions.
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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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This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
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Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.
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Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.
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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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