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• Good fortune and a good disposition are rarely given to the same man.

  Livy

  Men, Luck, Fortune

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXX, section 42,

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• Law is a thing which is insensible, and inexorable, more beneficial and more profitious to the weak than to the strong; it admits of no mitigation nor pardon, once you have overstepped its limits.

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  Strong, Law, Limits

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

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• From abundance springs satiety.

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  Spring, Abundance, Satiety

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book III, section 1,

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• We feel public misfortunes just so far as they affect our private circumstances, and nothing of this nature appeals more directly to us than the loss of money.

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  Loss, Appeals, Circumstances

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

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• The best known evil is the most tolerable.

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  Evil, Tolerable, Known

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

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• The name of freedom regained is sweet to hear.

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  Sweet, Names

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXIV, section 21,

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• False shame only is harmful.

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  Shame

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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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  Opposites, Together, Toil

  Livy (1823). “The History of Rome”, p.417

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• Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely dread.

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  Men, Suffering, Dread

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, "Annales", III. 39, (pp. 762-763), 1922.

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• That sense – the only true patriotism – comes slowly and springs from the heart: it is founded upon respect for the family and love for the soil. Premature ‘liberty’ of this kind would have been a disaster: we should have been torn to pieces by petty squabbles before we had ever reached political maturity, which, as things were, as made possible by the long quiet years under monarchical government; for it was that government which, as it were, nursed our strength and enabled us ultimately to produce sound fruit from liberty, as only a politically adult nation can.

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  Spring, Heart, Maturity

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• There are laws for peace as well as war.

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  Peace, War, Law

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book V, section 27,

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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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  Horse, Sea, Cities

  Book 44, chapter 22. Reported in "Livy" by Alfred C. Schlesinger, vol. 13, p. 161, 1951.

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• Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.

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  Glory, Fame, Despised

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book II, section 47,

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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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  Eye, Records, Action

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Praefatio, section 10,

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• You know how to vanquish, Hannibal, but you do not know how to profit from victory.

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  Victory, Vanquish, Profit

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXII, section 51,

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• Envy is blind. -Caeca invidia est

  Livy

  Envy, Blind

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• It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.

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  Men, Trials, Guilty

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

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• Once let good faith be abandoned, and all social existence would perish.

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  Letting Go, Social, Abandoned

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• Envy like fire always makes for the highest points.

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  Fire, Envy, Highest

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book VIII, section 31,

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• Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.

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  Fall, Honor, Desire

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book IV, section 57,

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• Nothing stings us so bitterly as the loss of money

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  Money, Loss

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• By flying, men often rush into the midst of calamities.

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  Men, Flying, Midst

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