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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.”
-- Livy

#Country #Medicine #Sick
“Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.”
-- Livy

#Gratitude #Blessing #Men
“Adversity makes men remember God.”
-- Livy

#Adversity #Men #Remember
“It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.”
-- Livy

#Maturity #Long #Excellence
“A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.”
-- Livy

#Betrayal #Betrayed #Ends
“From abundance springs satiety.”
-- Livy

#Spring #Abundance #Satiety
“Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.”
-- Livy

#Men #Danger #Spite
“An honor prudently declined often returns with increased luster.”
-- Livy

#Honor #Return
“In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.”
-- Livy

#Adversity #Desire #Assuming
“Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.”
-- Livy

#Trust #Betrayal #Men
“Envy is blind. -Caeca invidia est”
-- Livy

#Envy #Blind
“Envy like fire always makes for the highest points.”
-- Livy

#Fire #Envy
“No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.”
-- Livy

#Wickedness #Reason
“Potius sero quam nunquam. Better late than never.”
-- Livy

#Time #Better Late Than Never
“Valor is the soldier's adornment.”
-- Livy

#Military #Soldier #Valor
“The less there is of fear, the less there is of danger.”
-- Livy

#Military #Danger
“Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.”
-- Livy

#Time #Spring #Events
“Certain peace is better and safer than anticipated victory.”
-- Livy

#Peace #Victory #Harmony
“The army from Asia introduced a foreign luxury to Rome; it was then the meals began to require more dishes and more expenditure . . . the cook, who had up to that time been employed as a slave of low price, become dear: what had been nothing but a metier was elevated to an art.”
-- Livy

#Art #Army #Rome
“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.”
-- Livy

#Success #Congratulations #Real
“Once let good faith be abandoned, and all social existence would perish.”
-- Livy

#Letting Go #Social #Abandoned
“We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.”
-- Livy

#Adversity #Comfort #Ease
“No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level.”
-- Livy

#Men #Envy #Levels
“Envy, like fire, soars upward.”
-- Livy

#Fire #Envy #Soar
“Persevere in virtue and diligence.”
-- Livy

#Perseverance #Persistence #Persevere
“Thus, if there is anyone who is confident that he can advise me as to the best advantage of the state in this campaign which I am about to conduct, let him not refuse his services to the state, but come with me into Macedonia. I will furnish him with his sea-passage, with a horse, a tent, and even travel-funds. If anyone is reluctant to do this and prefers the leisure of the city to the hardships of campaigning, let him not steer the ship from on shore.”
-- Livy

#Horse #Sea #Cities
“Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.”
-- Livy

#Immortal #Hostility
“Toil and pleasure, in their natures opposite, are yet linked together in a kind of necessary connection.”
-- Livy

#Opposites #Together #Toil
“No law is quite appropriate for all.”
-- Livy

#Law
“Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.”
-- Livy

#Matter #Dignity #Mankind

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