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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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The study of History is the best medicine for a sick mind.
LIVY

Best History Mindset Sick Study
No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
LIVY

Crime Justice Law Legal Protection
Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
LIVY

Easy Known Sick
Prosperity engenders sloth.
LIVY

One Liner Prosperity
In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
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Bold Choice Difficult Hard Time Safety
There is always more spirit in attack than in defence.
LIVY

Attack Protection Spirit
In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.
LIVY

Adversity Angry Desire Prosperity
Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.
LIVY

Better Crime Resistance
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.
LIVY

Law Limitation Strong Weakness
We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
LIVY

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
In war, mere appearances have had all the effect of realities; and that a person, under a firm persuasion that he can command resources, virtually has them; that very prospect inspiring him with hope and boldness in his exertions.
LIVY

Action Appearance Bold Brave Courage Himself Hope Inspirational Person Reality War
Never is work without reward, or reward without work.
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Inspirational Reward Success Work
Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.
LIVY

Abuse Quick
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.
LIVY

Law Limitation Strong Weakness
No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
LIVY

Cruelty Place Reason

This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.

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