Livy Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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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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“It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.”
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“A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.”
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“Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.”
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“An honor prudently declined often returns with increased luster.”
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“In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.”
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“Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.”
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“Envy like fire always makes for the highest points.”
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“The less there is of fear, the less there is of danger.”
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“Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.”
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“Certain peace is better and safer than anticipated victory.”
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“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.”
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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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“Once let good faith be abandoned, and all social existence would perish.”
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“We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.”
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“No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level.”
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“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.”
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“Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.”
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“Toil and pleasure, in their natures opposite, are yet linked together in a kind of necessary connection.”
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