The result showed that fortune helps the brave.
LIVYThe name of freedom regained is sweet to hear.
More Livy Quotes
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There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.
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Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
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Wit is the flower of the imagination.
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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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In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
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The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.
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We feel public misfortunes just so far as they affect our private circumstances, and nothing of this nature appeals more directly to us than the loss of money.
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Prosperity engenders sloth.
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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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No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
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There is always more spirit in attack than in defence.
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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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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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Bad beginnings, bad endings.
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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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