Persevere in virtue and diligence.
LIVYIt is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
More Livy Quotes
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Prosperity engenders sloth.
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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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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.
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The less there is of fear, the less there is of danger.
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The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.
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Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.
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Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.
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No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
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The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.
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A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.
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Nothing hurts worse than the loss of money.
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Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
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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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No law is quite appropriate for all.
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