No man likes to be surpassed by those of his own level.
LIVYResistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.
More Livy Quotes
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Luck rules every human endeavor, especially war.
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Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.
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The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.
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We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
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Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
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Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.
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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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Nothing hurts worse than the loss of money.
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An honor prudently declined often returns with increased luster.
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Necessity is the last and strongest weapon.
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The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.
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Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
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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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Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.
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It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
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