All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.
LIVYThe most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.
More Livy Quotes
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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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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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In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.
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Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.
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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.
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Great contests generally excite great animosities.
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We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
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Greater is our terror of the unknown.
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No law is quite appropriate for all.
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Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
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No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
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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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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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Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.
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