It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
LIVYBetter 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.
More Livy Quotes
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Greater is our terror of the unknown.
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No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
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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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The name of freedom regained is sweet to hear.
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Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.
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Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.
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Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.
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Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.
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Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
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Nothing hurts worse than the loss of money.
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The study of History is the best medicine for a sick mind.
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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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The result showed that fortune helps the brave.
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Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.
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Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.
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