The name of freedom regained is sweet to hear.
LIVYLaw 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.
More Livy Quotes
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We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
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Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.
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Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
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Luck rules every human endeavor, especially war.
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Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.
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Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.
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I 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.
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Prosperity engenders sloth.
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In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.
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Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.
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Necessity is the last and strongest weapon.
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No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
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He will have true glory who despises it.
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No one wants to be excelled by his relatives.
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Bad beginnings, bad endings.
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