Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.
LIVYIt takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
More Livy Quotes
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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 are laws for peace as well as war.
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Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.
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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
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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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The sun has not yet set for all time.
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Wit is the flower of the imagination.
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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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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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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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Never is work without reward, or reward without work.
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The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.
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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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Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.
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Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.
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