Valor is the soldier's adornment.
LivyRead
It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task.
Interpretation
Building wealth takes hard work, while losing it can happen easily.
This quote by Livy highlights the contrast between the difficulty of accumulating wealth and the ease with which it can be lost. It suggests that while financial stability requires effort, discipline, and perseverance, it can be quickly undermined by poor choices or circumstances, underscoring the importance of financial prudence and the value of hard work.
In practice
In a financial literacy workshop discussing the importance of saving and investment.
Valor is the soldier's adornment.
The army from Asia introduced a foreign luxury to Rome; it was then the meals began to require more dishes and more expenditure . . . the cook, who had up to that time been employed as a slave of low price, become dear: what had been nothing but a metier was elevated to an art.
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.
Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own.
The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.
No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
Once, a union job at GM or AT&T was a bridge to success. Now, a nonunion Wal-Mart job is a bridge to nowhere.
I literally coded Facebook in my dorm room and launched it from my dorm room. I rented a server for $85 a month, and I funded it by putting an ad on the side, and we've funded ever since by putting ads on the side.
Winners are not born, they are self-made.
Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you're proud to live.
I try to make it look easy, but the behind-the-scenes stuff is the challenge.
Measure the success of your days by the lives touched vs the hours passed.
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