War is just to those for whom it is necessary, and arms are clear of impiety for those who have no hope left but in arms.
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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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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Adversity makes men remember God.
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Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.
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We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
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A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.
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It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult and arduous.
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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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Never is work without reward, or reward without work.
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The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.
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Greater is our terror of the unknown.
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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 mind sins, not the body; if there is no intention, there is no blame.
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Envy, like flames, soars upwards.
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Men’s minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.
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