No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
LIVYA woman’s mind is affected by the meanest gifts.
More Livy Quotes
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No one wants to be excelled by his relatives.
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Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.
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The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.
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War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
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No man likes to be surpassed by those of his own level.
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The sun has not yet set for all time.
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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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Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.
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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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Wit is the flower of the imagination.
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Luck rules every human endeavor, especially war.
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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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We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
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The less there is of fear, the less there is of danger.
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He will have true glory who despises it.
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Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.
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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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A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.
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In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.
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The mind sins, not the body; if there is no intention, there is no blame.
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There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
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Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.
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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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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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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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Never is work without reward, or reward without work.
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