Persevere in virtue and diligence.
LIVYPersevere in virtue and diligence.
LIVYTruth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
LIVYSuch is the nature of crowds: either they are humble and servile or arrogant and dominating. They are incapable of making moderate use of freedom, which is the middle course, or of keeping it.
LIVYThere is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
LIVYIt takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
LIVYFriends should be judged by their acts, not their words.
LIVYWoe to the conquered.
LIVYThe old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.
LIVYThe less there is of fear, the less there is of danger.
LIVYEnvy, like flames, soars upwards.
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.
LIVYNo wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
LIVYIn grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.
LIVYShared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.
LIVYThere is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.
LIVYMany difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.
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