Livy Quotes
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All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.
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Better late than never.
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Passions are generally roused from great conflict.
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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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Envy, like flames, soars upwards.
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The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty.
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Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.
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Luck rules every human endeavor, especially war.
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Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.
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Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.
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Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
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Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.
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The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.
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Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.
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Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
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Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.
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Temerity is not always successful.
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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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Envy like fire always makes for the highest points.
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Wit is the flower of the imagination.
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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
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The best known evil is the most tolerable.
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False shame only is harmful.
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Haste is blind and improvident.
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There are laws for peace as well as war.
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The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see; and in that record you can find yourself and your country both examples and warnings; fine things to take as models, base things rotten through and through, to avoid.
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In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.
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No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
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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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Valor is the soldier's adornment.
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