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Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.

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Valor is the soldier’s adornment.
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Jewel One Liner Soldier War
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.
LIVY

Law Oneself Possible Satisfaction
Better 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.
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Better God Hands Hope Peace Power Safety Victory
Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.
LIVY

Control Greatness Himself Intellectual Judgement Luck Moments
The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.
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Democracy Freedom People Prison Taste
Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.
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Double Fame Hate Return
From abundance springs safety.
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Material Safety Spring Wealth
There is always more spirit in attack than in defence.
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Attack Protection Spirit
No law is quite appropriate for all.
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Law One Liner Quite Right
We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
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Endurance Ourselves Vice
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.
LIVY

Discover God Independent Myself Pieces Power Reality Success Thinking Wait
Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.
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Forever Friendship Immortal Mortal
There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
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Money Poor Poverty Shame Worst
The less there is of fear, the less there is of danger.
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Danger Fear Safety Security
There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.
LIVY

Enemy Friendship Immortal Truth
Luck rules every human endeavor, especially war.
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Human Luck Rule War

Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.

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