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Livy

Quotes

Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Livy?
- → The beginning is the most important part of the work.
- → Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
- → There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.
- → What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
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Pick the quote attributed to Livy.
- → Better late than never.
- → Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
- → Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
- → Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.
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Select the quotation attributed to Livy.
- → Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
- → In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
- → Honesty stands at the gate and knocks, and bribery enters in.
- → Every horse thinks his own pack heaviest.
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One of these may be attributed to Livy. Which one?
- → Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
- → Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.
- → The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
- → The rule in carving holds good as to criticism: never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.
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