From abundance springs safety.
LIVYThe study of History is the best medicine for a sick mind.
More Livy Quotes
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Men’s minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.
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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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Envy, like flames, soars upwards.
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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.
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Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
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No law is quite appropriate for all.
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The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.
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No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority.
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That business does not prosper which you transact with the eyes of others.
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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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The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.
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Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.
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A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.
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The name of freedom regained is sweet to hear.
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