Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.
LIVYThe sun has not yet set for all time.
More Livy Quotes
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Necessity is the last and strongest weapon.
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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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Wit is the flower of the imagination.
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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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Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.
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The less there is of fear, the less there is of danger.
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Nothing hurts worse than the loss of money.
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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.
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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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This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
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Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.
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I have often heard that the outstanding man is he who thinks deeply about a problem, and the next is he who listens carefully to advice.
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Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.
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Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.
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No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
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