This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
LIVYWoe to the conquered.
More Livy Quotes
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Necessity is the last and strongest weapon.
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The sun has not yet set for all time.
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Envy, like flames, soars upwards.
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In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.
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Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.
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There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
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Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
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Adversity makes men remember God.
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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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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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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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Great contests generally excite great animosities.
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No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
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Greater is our terror of the unknown.
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Such is the nature of crowds: either they are humble and servile or arrogant and dominating. They are incapable of making moderate use of freedom, which is the middle course, or of keeping it.
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There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.
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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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The mind sins, not the body; if there is no intention, there is no blame.
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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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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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Persevere in virtue and diligence.
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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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An honor prudently declined often returns with increased luster.
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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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Wit is the flower of the imagination.
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War is just to those for whom it is necessary, and arms are clear of impiety for those who have no hope left but in arms.
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