This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
LIVYThis above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
LIVYI 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.
LIVYSuch 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.
LIVYThe mind sins, not the body; if there is no intention, there is no blame.
LIVYNothing hurts worse than the loss of money.
LIVYThis was the Athenians’ war against the King of Macedon, a war of words. Words are the only weapons the Athenians have left.
LIVYEnvy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.
LIVYThis above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
LIVYIt is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
LIVYMen are slower to recognize blessings than evils.
LIVYWoe to the conquered.
LIVYFrom abundance springs safety.
LIVYMen’s minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.
LIVYWe survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
LIVYMen are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
LIVYThere is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.
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