Livy Quotes

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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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Wisdom

  Livy, Lello Scorzelli (1972). “The History of Early Rome”

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• We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.

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  Adversity, Comfort, Ease

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• Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.

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  Gratitude, Blessed, Blessing

  Livy (1949). “Livy”

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• Never is work without reward, or reward without work.

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  Rewards

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• Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.

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  Truth, Truth Is

  Livy (1834). “Livy”, p.56

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• Adversity makes men remember God.

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  Adversity, Men, Remember

  "Was the Governor of Tokyo Right -- Is God Punishing Japan?" by Mark Joseph, www.foxnews.com. March 29, 2011.

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• A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.

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  Betrayal, Betrayed, Ends

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XLIV, section 15,

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• In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.

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  Littles, Graves, Difficulty

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• He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune's breeze is favorable, or cast down when it is adverse.

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  Adversity, Men, Prosperity

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XLV, section 8,

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• It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

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  Teacher, Time, Teaching

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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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  Men, Haste, Doe

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXII, section 39,

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• The mind sins, not the body; if there is no intention, there is no blame.

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  Sins Not, Mind, Body

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• There is always more spirit in attack than in defence.

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  Spirit, Defence

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXVIII, section 44,

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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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  Success, Real, Congratulations

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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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  Men, Danger, Spite

  Livy (1967). “The early history of Rome: Books I-V of The history of Rome from its foundation”

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• I have often heard that the outstanding man is he who thinks deeply about a problem, and the next is he who listens carefully to advice.

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  Men, Thinking, Advice

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• Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.

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  Time, Blessed, Men

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, "Annales", XXX. 42, (pp. 289-293), 1922.

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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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  Exercise, May, Way

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• Envy, like flames, soars upwards.

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  Flames, Envy, Soar

  Livy (1833). “Livy”, p.52

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

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  Feelings, Crowds, Uncertain

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• Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.

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  Luxury, Evil, Ruins

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• He will have true glory who despises it.

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  Glory, Despise

  "History of Rome" by Livy, Book XXII, sec. 39,

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• There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.

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  Attractive, Creeds

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXXIX, section 16,

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• There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.

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  Poverty, Parsimony, Ashamed

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXXIV, section 4,

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• Nothing hurts worse than the loss of money.

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  Hurt, Loss

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