War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
LIVYThose ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
More Livy Quotes
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Men’s minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.
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Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.
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That business does not prosper which you transact with the eyes of others.
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Valor is the soldier’s adornment.
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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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From abundance springs safety.
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No law is quite appropriate for all.
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There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.
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I have often heard that the outstanding man is he who thinks deeply about a problem, and the next is he who listens carefully to advice.
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No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
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Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.
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It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
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Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.
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The mind sins, not the body; if there is no intention, there is no blame.
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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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No man likes to be surpassed by those of his own level.
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A woman’s mind is affected by the meanest gifts.
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Adversity reminds men of religion.
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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
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No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
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In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.
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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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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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Wit is the flower of the imagination.
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We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
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