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In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.

~Livy

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Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.

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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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He will have true glory who despises it.

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The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.

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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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Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.

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The sun has not yet set for all time.

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Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: Roman

Type: Historian

Born: Unknown

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