Livy

Quotes by Livy

• ...we can endure neither our vices nor the remedies needed to cure them.

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• Fear looks always on the darker side...

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• ...we can endure neither our vices nor the remedies needed to cure them.

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• Fear looks always on the darker side...

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• Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes.

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• From abundance springs satiety.

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• Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.

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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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• Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.

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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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• We can endure neither our vices nor the remedies for them.

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• The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.

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• Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.

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• Woe to the conquered.

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• Adversity reminds men of religion.

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• In difficult situations when hope seems feeble, the boldest plans are safest.

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• Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.

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• Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.

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• Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.

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• No law is quite appropriate for all.

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