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A certain peace is better and safer than a victory in prospect; the former is at your own disposal, the latter depends upon the gods.

Livy

We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
LIVY

Endurance Ourselves Vice
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.
LIVY

Law Limitation Strong Weakness
There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.
LIVY

Enemy Friendship Immortal Truth
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.
LIVY

Law Limitation Strong Weakness
It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
LIVY

Excellence Maturity Time
Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.
LIVY

Bond Dangerous Hate Man Strong
War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
LIVY

Choice Necessary War
Wit is the flower of the imagination.
LIVY

Flower Imagination
Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.
LIVY

Double Fame Hate Return
Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
LIVY

Bond Nature Relationship Unity
The mind sins, not the body; if there is no intention, there is no blame.
LIVY

Blame Body Intention Mindset Sin
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.
LIVY

Better God Hands Hope Peace Power Safety Victory
Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.
LIVY

Forever Friendship Immortal Mortal
Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.
LIVY

Evil Luxury Nation Ruin
Envy, like flames, soars upwards.
LIVY

Deep Fire Flame One Liner
Luck rules every human endeavor, especially war.
LIVY

Human Luck Rule War

A certain peace is better and safer than a victory in prospect; the former is at your own disposal, the latter depends upon the gods.

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