Persevere in virtue and diligence.
LIVYNo law is sufficiently convenient to all.
More Livy Quotes
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Never is work without reward, or reward without work.
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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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Adversity makes men remember God.
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No man likes to be surpassed by those of his own level.
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A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.
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The result showed that fortune helps the brave.
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A woman’s mind is affected by the meanest gifts.
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The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.
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When Tarquin the Proud was asked what was the best mode of governing a conquered city, he replied only by beating down with his staff all the tallest poppies in his garden.
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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
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Envy, like flames, soars upwards.
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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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The less there is of fear, the less there is of danger.
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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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