Bad beginnings, bad endings.
LIVYThe result showed that fortune helps the brave.
More Livy Quotes
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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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Temerity is not always successful.
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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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Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.
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Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies’ resources, and minimized their own.
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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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This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
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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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A woman’s mind is affected by the meanest gifts.
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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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We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
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A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.
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The sun has not yet set for all time.
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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
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Adversity reminds men of religion.
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In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
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It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
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The study of History is the best medicine for a sick mind.
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The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.
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In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.
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Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.
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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.
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Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
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He will have true glory who despises it.
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Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
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