There is always more spirit in attack than in defence.
LIVYThose ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
More Livy Quotes
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He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune’s breeze is favorable, or cast down when it is adverse.
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It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
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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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Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.
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Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.
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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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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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Bad beginnings, bad endings.
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Temerity is not always successful.
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Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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This was the Athenians’ war against the King of Macedon, a war of words. Words are the only weapons the Athenians have left.
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Nothing hurts worse than the loss of money.
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Envy, like flames, soars upwards.
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Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
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