It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
LIVYMen are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.
More Livy Quotes
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Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.
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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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Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
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Necessity is the last and strongest weapon.
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Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.
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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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He will have true glory who despises it.
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Such is the nature of crowds: either they are humble and servile or arrogant and dominating. They are incapable of making moderate use of freedom, which is the middle course, or of keeping it.
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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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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 always more spirit in attack than in defence.
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Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.
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No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
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In war, mere appearances have had all the effect of realities; and that a person, under a firm persuasion that he can command resources, virtually has them; that very prospect inspiring him with hope and boldness in his exertions.
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The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.
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