Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.
LIVYThere is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.
More Livy Quotes
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A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.
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The name of freedom regained is sweet to hear.
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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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Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
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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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From abundance springs safety.
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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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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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Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.
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Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
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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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The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.
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No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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