Wit is the flower of the imagination.
LIVYWe survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
More Livy Quotes
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Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
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Great contests generally excite great animosities.
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Men’s minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.
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Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.
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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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The name of freedom regained is sweet to hear.
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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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Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
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Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.
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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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A woman’s mind is affected by the meanest gifts.
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Adversity makes men remember God.
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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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