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Men Quotes by Livy
- Adversity makes men remember God.
- Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.
- It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.
- There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.
- Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.
- Men are least safe from what success induces them not to fear.
- I have often heard that the outstanding man is he who thinks deeply about a problem, and the next is he who listens carefully to…
- Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.
- 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.
- Adversity reminds men of religion.
- No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level.
- Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely dread.
- All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.
- Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
- Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.
- Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes.
- Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.
- They are more than men at the outset of their battles; at the end they are less than the women.
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