Luck rules every human endeavor, especially war.
LIVYEnvy, like flames, soars upwards.
More Livy Quotes
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There is always more spirit in attack than in defence.
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Adversity reminds men of religion.
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Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.
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No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
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We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
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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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There are laws for peace as well as war.
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The less there is of fear, the less there is of danger.
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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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Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.
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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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Great contests generally excite great animosities.
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Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.
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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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Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.
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