Livy - Nature Quotes

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

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We feel public misfortunes just so far as they affect our private circumstances, and nothing of this nature appeals more directly to us than the loss of money.

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Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.

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Nature has ordained that the man who is pleading his own cause before a large audience, will be more readily listened to than he who has no object in view other than the public benefit.

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Such is the nature of crowds: either they are humble and servile or arrogant and dominating. They are incapable of making moderate use of freedom, which is the middle course, or of keeping it.

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Toil and pleasure, in their natures opposite, are yet linked together in a kind of necessary connection.

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