Best Livy Sayings
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Toil and pleasure, in their natures opposite, are yet linked together in a kind of necessary connection.
Connection
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Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.
Friendships
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The mind sins, not the body; if there is no intention, there is no blame.
Blame
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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…
Advantage
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Persevere in virtue and diligence.
Diligence
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Once let good faith be abandoned, and all social existence would perish.
Abandoned
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We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
Adversity
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No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level.
Envy
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Envy, like fire, soars upward.
Envy
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A woman's mind is affected by the meanest gifts.
Affected
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He will have true glory who despises it.
Despise
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Nothing stings us so bitterly as the loss of money
Bitterly
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Necessity is the last and strongest weapon
Inspirational
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It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult and arduous
Acquire
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Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.
Inspirational
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As soon as she (woman) begins to be ashamed of what she ought not, she will not be ashamed of what she ought.
Ashamed
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The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty.
Ashamed
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Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely dread.
Dread
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Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.
Betray
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A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.
Betray
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All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.
All
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Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
Blame
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Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.
Beginnings
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Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
Circumstances
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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…
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