The name of freedom regained is sweet to hear.
LIVYThe 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.
More Livy Quotes
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War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
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It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
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Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.
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Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.
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Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.
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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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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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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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Nothing hurts worse than the loss of money.
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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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A woman’s mind is affected by the meanest gifts.
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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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The result showed that fortune helps the brave.
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A certain peace is better and safer than a victory in prospect; the former is at your own disposal, the latter depends upon the gods.
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Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
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