Wit is the flower of the imagination.
LIVYIt is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
More Livy Quotes
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Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
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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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Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.
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Bad beginnings, bad endings.
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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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Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.
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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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There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.
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Temerity is not always successful.
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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 populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.
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No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
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The study of History is the best medicine for a sick mind.
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Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.
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Greater is our terror of the unknown.
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