Men’s minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.
LIVYIt is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
More Livy Quotes
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Envy, like flames, soars upwards.
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The study of History is the best medicine for a sick mind.
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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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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 takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
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There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
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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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No man likes to be surpassed by those of his own level.
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A certain peace is better and safer than a victory in prospect; the former is at your own disposal, the latter depends upon the gods.
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War is just to those for whom it is necessary, and arms are clear of impiety for those who have no hope left but in arms.
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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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A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.
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Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
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In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.
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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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