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• Necessity is the last and strongest weapon.

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  Weapons, Lasts, Strongest

  "Annales" IV, 28,

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• We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.

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  Vices, Cures, Endure

  Livy (1977). “Titus Livius”

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• Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.

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  Trust, Betrayal, Integrity

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• Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.

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  Matter, Dignity, Mankind

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• Better and safer is an assured peace than a victory hoped for. The one is in your own power, the other is in the hands of the gods.

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  Peace, Hands, Victory

  Livy, Benjamin Oliver Foster, Frank Gardner Moore, Evan Taylor Sage, Alfred Cary Schlesinger (1949). “Livy: Books XXVIII-XXX”

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• An honor prudently declined often returns with increased luster.

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  Honor, Return, Luster

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• Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.

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  Immortal, Ought, Mortals

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• Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.

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  Time, Spring, Events

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, "Annales", XXVII. 9, (pp. 815-816), 1922.

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• Haste is blind and improvident.

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  Haste, Blind, Blindness

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

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• Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.

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  Clever, Envy, Blind

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• Luck rules every human endeavor, especially war.

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  Peace, War, Luck

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• Bad beginnings, bad endings.

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• The less there is of fear, the less there is of danger.

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  Military, Danger

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• It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.

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  Trust, Fortune, Trusted

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXX, section 30,

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• When Tarquin the Proud was asked what was the best mode of governing a conquered city, he replied only by beating down with his staff all the tallest poppies in his garden.

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  Garden, Government, Cities

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• Wit is the flower of the imagination.

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  Flower, Imagination, Wit

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• The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.

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  Serious, Trouble, Threatening

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

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• Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.

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  Moving, Scandal

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• Men are least safe from what success induces them not to fear.

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  Fear, Men, Safe

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• Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.

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  Humble, Greatness, Rome

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

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• Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.

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  Endurance, Bears, Familiar

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXIII, section 3,

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• Persevere in virtue and diligence.

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  Perseverance, Persistence, Persevere

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• Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.

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  Firsts, Ends, Betray

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 811-812), 1922.

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• Greater is our terror of the unknown.

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  Terror, Greater

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

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• The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty.

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  Poverty, Kind, Shame

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, "Annales", XXXIV. 4, (p. 702), 1922.

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