Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
LIVYNowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
LIVYValor is the soldier’s adornment.
LIVYNever is work without reward, or reward without work.
LIVYIt is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
LIVYIn adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.
LIVYMany difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.
LIVYThere is always more spirit in attack than in defence.
LIVYTemerity is not always successful.
LIVYA fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.
LIVYFriendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.
LIVYTruth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
LIVYNo wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
LIVYDignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
LIVYFriends should be judged by their acts, not their words.
LIVYMen’s minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.
LIVYTreachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.
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