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Quotes from Livy

We can endure neither our evils nor their cures.
~ Livy
Beyond the Alps lies Italy.
~ Livy
All such distinctions as tend to set the orders of the state at a distance from each other are equally subversive of liberty and concord.
~ Livy
Assume in adversity a countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate thy temper.
~ Livy
Being continually in people?s sight, by the satiety which it creates, diminishes the reverence felt for great characters.
~ Livy
Children form a bond of union than which the human heart finds none more enduring.
~ Livy
Men?s minds are generally ingenious in palliating guilt in themselves.
~ Livy
Toil and pleasure, in their natures opposite, are yet linked together in a kind of necessary connection.
~ Livy
The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.
~ Livy
In difficult situations when hope seems feeble the boldest plans are safest.
~ Livy
Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
~ Livy
The less there is of fear, the less there is of danger.
~ Livy