No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
LIVYNo law is sufficiently convenient to all.
More Livy Quotes
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No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority.
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War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
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Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.
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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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Temerity is not always successful.
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Nothing hurts worse than the loss of money.
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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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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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Valor is the soldier’s adornment.
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We feel public misfortunes just so far as they affect our private circumstances, and nothing of this nature appeals more directly to us than the loss of money.
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The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.
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A woman’s mind is affected by the meanest gifts.
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All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.
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An honor prudently declined often returns with increased luster.
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Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.
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