Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
LIVYLaw 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.
More Livy Quotes
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It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult and arduous.
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There is always more spirit in attack than in defence.
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Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.
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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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Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.
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Wit is the flower of the imagination.
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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
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Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.
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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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Envy, like flames, soars upwards.
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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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It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
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From abundance springs safety.
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Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
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