Wit is the flower of the imagination.
LIVYIn difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
More Livy Quotes
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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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Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.
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Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
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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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Adversity makes men remember God.
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There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
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Envy, like flames, soars upwards.
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Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.
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From abundance springs safety.
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Luck rules every human endeavor, especially war.
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This was the Athenians’ war against the King of Macedon, a war of words. Words are the only weapons the Athenians have left.
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Men’s minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.
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Greater is our terror of the unknown.
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Great contests generally excite great animosities.
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Temerity is not always successful.
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