“It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task.”
Titus Livius
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“Passions are generally roused from great conflict.”
Titus Livius
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“Before anything else [Numa] decided that he must instill in his subjects the fear of the gods, this being the most effective measure with an ignorant, and at that time uncultured, people.”
Titus Livius
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“There are laws for peace as well as war.”
Titus Livius
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“Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.”
Titus Livius
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“They lived under a just and moderate government, and they admitted that one bond of their fidelity was that their rulers were the better men.”
Titus Livius
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“This above all makes history useful and desirable: it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.”
Titus Livius
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“We do not learn this only from the event, which is the master of fools.”
Titus Livius
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“Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.”
Titus Livius
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“Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.”
Titus Livius
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“There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.”
Titus Livius
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“Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies’ resources,and minimized their own.”
Titus Livius
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“Greater is our terror of the unknown.”
Titus Livius
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