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.
LIVYThe populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.
More Livy Quotes
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Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.
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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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Luck rules every human endeavor, especially war.
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Greater is our terror of the unknown.
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No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
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Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.
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Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
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Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.
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Necessity is the last and strongest weapon.
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No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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Great contests generally excite great animosities.
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Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
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War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
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