Necessity is the last and strongest weapon.
LIVYFrom abundance springs safety.
More Livy Quotes
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Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.
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Nothing hurts worse than the loss of money.
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We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
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There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.
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No one wants to be excelled by his relatives.
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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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No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
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Adversity reminds men of religion.
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Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays 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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He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune’s breeze is favorable, or cast down when it is adverse.
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There are laws for peace as well as war.
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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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Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
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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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