From abundance springs safety.
LIVYNever is work without reward, or reward without work.
More Livy Quotes
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Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.
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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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The sun has not yet set for all time.
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A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.
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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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There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.
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Adversity makes men remember God.
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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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No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
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Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.
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Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.
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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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Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.
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In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.
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Woe to the conquered.
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