What did Livy mean by: Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state. - Livy Historian · Italy Copy
+ Men are least safe from what success induces them not to fear. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Livy, Fear, Safe, 0 - Livy Historian · Italy
+ Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Livy, Criminals, Resistance, 0 - Livy Historian · Italy
+ False shame only is harmful. Feraz Zeid, August 17, 2023December 12, 2023, Livy, Shame, 0 - Livy Historian · Italy
+ Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Livy, Endurance, Familiar, 0 - Livy Historian · Italy
+ The less there is of fear, the less there is of danger. Feraz Zeid, June 14, 2023December 12, 2023, Livy, Danger, Military, 0 - Livy Historian · Italy
+ We can endure neither our vices nor their cure. Feraz Zeid, August 10, 2023December 12, 2023, Livy, Cures, Endure, Vices, 0 - Livy Historian · Italy
+ Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Livy, Betray, End, 0 - Livy Historian · Italy
+ The best known evil is the most tolerable. Feraz Zeid, June 9, 2023December 12, 2023, Livy, Evil, 0 - Livy Historian · Italy
I don’t understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it’s a mind-altering possibility. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
It is not badness, it is the absence of goodness, which, in Art as in Life, is so depressing. - Freya Stark Explorer · United Kingdom
A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face? - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues. - Jean Genet Playwright · France
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others. - Jean Giraudoux Playwright · France
The greatest foe to art is luxury, art cannot live in its atmosphere. - William Morris Designer · England
