We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
LIVYA fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.
More Livy Quotes
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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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He will have true glory who despises it.
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In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
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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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Persevere in virtue and diligence.
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Greater is our terror of the unknown.
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In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.
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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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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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Necessity is the last and strongest weapon.
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Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.
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The mind sins, not the body; if there is no intention, there is no blame.
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Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.
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This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
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Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.
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The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.
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Bad beginnings, bad endings.
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We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
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This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
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All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.
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In war, mere appearances have had all the effect of realities; and that a person, under a firm persuasion that he can command resources, virtually has them; that very prospect inspiring him with hope and boldness in his exertions.
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Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.
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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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The result showed that fortune helps the brave.
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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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Prosperity engenders sloth.
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