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The state is suffering from two opposite vices, avarice and luxury; two plagues which, in the past, have been the ruin of every great empire.
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Good fortune and a good disposition are rarely given to the same man.
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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 experience plainly set out for all to see; and in that record you can find yourself and your country both examples and warnings; fine things to take as models, base things rotten through and through, to avoid.
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You know how to vanquish, Hannibal, but you do not know how to profit from victory.
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War is just, Samnites, to those for whom it is necessary.
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We can endure neither our evils nor their cures.
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It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
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Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.
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Law is a thing which is insensible, and inexorable, more beneficial and more profitious to the weak than to the strong; it admits of no mitigation nor pardon, once you have overstepped its limits.
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He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune's breeze is favorable, or cast down when it is adverse.
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Born:
59 BC
Died:
17 AD
(aged 76)
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Titus Livius, known as Livy in English, wrote a monumental history of Rome, Ab Urbe Condita, from its founding through the reign of Augustus.
Known for:
The history of Rome
Ab Urbe Condita Libri
The Early History of Rome
The war with Hannibal
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