Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
LIVYThis above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
More Livy Quotes
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The less there is of fear, the less there is of danger.
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Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.
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It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult and arduous.
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Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.
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Valor is the soldier’s adornment.
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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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There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.
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It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
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War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
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In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
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Luck rules every human endeavor, especially war.
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A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.
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Temerity is not always successful.
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Greater is our terror of the unknown.
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Persevere in virtue and diligence.
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