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A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.


Livy

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ERIC SAN Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.
GEORGE A. MOORE In the end it doesn't matter what you do.
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE In the end, crime doesn't pay.
LANE GARRISON Better to play dumb than to go as smartass… after all smartasses get what they deserve in the end....
DEYTH BANGER I've learnt that you are who you are, and in the end, if you don't believe it, then no one w...
USHER People will always show their true selves in the end.
LEONA LEWIS Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Injustice in the end produces independence.
VOLTAIRE It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
BONO The ceremony itself was inspiring. But it was a debacle from the outset.
CRAIG MACTAVISH Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR. Are the most dangerous creatures the ones that use doors or the ones that don't?
DAVID WONG Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.
SWAMI SIVANANDA You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
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TAMMARA WEBBER The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the...
KAREL CAPEK I try hope that in the end, we will live in a cancer-free world. We want to live disease-free lives.
AARON CIECHANOVER In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. The details are details. They make the product. The connections, the connections, the connections. I...
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HO CHI MINH The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the fo...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Let us use words carefully, because words can betray and kill.( "A gap of silence")
ERIK PEVERNAGIE Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad cas...
HELEN CLARK It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.
URSULA K. LE GUIN But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
BARRY GIBB In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.
JOHN C. MAXWELL In the end, Arik believes in security above all and is a salient pragmatist, a disciple of Ben-Gurio...
REUVEN RIVLIN In the end, rational policy is always good.
PAUL KEATING My gymnasts are always the best-prepared in the world. And they win. In the end, that's what mat...
BELA KAROLYI In the end, I'm an actor. I'm paid for what I bring to the screen.
ERIC BRAEDEN If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
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SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR Tomas turned the key and switched on the ceiling light. Teraza saw two beds pushed together, one of ...
MILAN KUNDERA She emptied her mind of all thought of herself, of her children, of all anger, of all rebellion, of ...
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MAGGIE STIEFVATER Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.
HEINRICH HEINE In the end, to do a good accent, you just have to be a good listener.
ABBEY LEE KERSHAW But in the end, music is ultimately an aural art, pure and simple.
LEO ORNSTEIN In the end it's about the work, not an award you get for the work.
LINDA FIORENTINO Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?
ELLEN GLASGOW In the end, I want to spend my 60s writing bonkbusters like Jilly Cooper.
CAITLIN MORAN There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.
ELLIS PETERS The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the fo...
JOHANN VON GOETHE You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distan...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN I've undoubtedly offended people, but in the end, I've learned the people that will understa...
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LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD The stab itself doesn't show anything about murderous intent.
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MARILYN VOS SAVANT Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
DAMIAN LEWIS In the end, it all comes to choices to turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones.
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MARK STRAND In the end we're all Jerry Springer Show guests, really, we just haven't been on the show.
MARILYN MANSON In the end, postmodern art is obscene not because it is offensive, but because it is boring.
GREGORY BENFORD In the end no segregationist scheme has withstood the force of a simple idea: equality under law.
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PAULO COELHO Better use medicines at the outset than at the last moment.
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T. R. KNIGHT In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish.
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LIVY The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest bree...
LIVY Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
LIVY Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.
LIVY In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
LIVY Persevere in virtue and diligence.
LIVY Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.
LIVY Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
LIVY In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.
LIVY History is the best medicine for a sick mind, for in history you have a record of the infinite varie...
LIVY No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
LIVY We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
LIVY In great straits and when hope is small, the boldest counsels are the safest.
LIVY It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.
LIVY Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.
LIVY It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous...
LIVY Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
LIVY He will have true glory who despises it.
LIVY Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.
LIVY There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.
LIVY This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of e...
LIVY Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magni...
LIVY All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.
LIVY We can endure neither our vices nor the remedies for them.
LIVY The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of ...
LIVY Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes.
LIVY Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
LIVY Now Brutus had deliberately assumed a mask to hide his true character.  When he learned of the murd...
LIVY Envy, like fire, soars upward. [Lat., Invidiam, tamquam ignem, summa petere.]
TITUS LIVY Men's minds are too ingenious in palliating guilt in themselves. [Lat., Ingenia humana sunt ad sua...
TITUS LIVY In great straits and when hope is small, the boldest counsels are the safest.
TITUS LIVY We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
TITUS LIVY Adversity reminds men of religion. [Lat., Adverse res admonent religionum.]
TITUS LIVY Men's plans should be regulated by the circumstances, not circumstances by the plans. [Lat., Cons...
TITUS LIVY In difficult and hopeless situations the boldest plans are the safest.
TITUS LIVY Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself. [Lat., Ipsa se fraus, etiams...
TITUS LIVY Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely dread. [Lat., Graviora quae pat...
TITUS LIVY Necessity is the last and strongest weapon. [Lat., Necessitas ultimum et maximum telum est.]
TITUS LIVY It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult an...
TITUS LIVY No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level. [Lat., A proximis quisque minime anteire ...
TITUS LIVY A woman's mind is affected by the meanest gifts. [Lat., Parvis mobilis rebus animus muliebris.]
TITUS LIVY Experience is the teacher of fools. [Lat., Stultorum eventus magister est.]
TITUS LIVY It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
TITUS LIVY The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty. [Lat., Pessimus quidem pudor vel...
TITUS LIVY As soon as she (woman) begins to be ashamed of what she ought not, she will not be ashamed of what ...
TITUS LIVY In difficult and hopeless situations the boldest plans are the safest.
TITUS LIVY Rashness is not fortunate
TITUS LIVY The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself - something th...
TITUS LIVY Superstition brings the gods into even the smallest matters
TITUS LIVY Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
TITUS LIVY Envy is blind, and she has no other quality than that of detracting from virtue
TITUS LIVY It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
TITUS LIVY Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves
TITUS LIVY Adversity makes men remember God
TITUS LIVY Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished
TITUS LIVY Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.
TITUS LIVY Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.
TITUS LIVY