Adversity reminds men of religion.
LIVYIt is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
More Livy Quotes
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Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.
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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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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
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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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No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
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Adversity makes men remember God.
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Woe to the conquered.
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In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
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The study of History is the best medicine for a sick mind.
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Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.
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In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.
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This was the Athenians’ war against the King of Macedon, a war of words. Words are the only weapons the Athenians have left.
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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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