Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.
LIVYResistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.
More Livy Quotes
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Temerity is not always successful.
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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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Valor is the soldier’s adornment.
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No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
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No one wants to be excelled by his relatives.
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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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Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.
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No man likes to be surpassed by those of his own level.
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Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.
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Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
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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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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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Nothing hurts worse than the loss of money.
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Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.
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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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