Livy Quotes
- Adversity makes men remember God.
- The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself - something that's in all of us, I think, a…
- The army from Asia introduced a foreign luxury to Rome; it was then the meals began to require more dishes and more expenditure . .…
- Certain peace is better and safer than anticipated victory.
- The less there is of fear, the less there is of danger.
- Valor is the soldier's adornment.
- It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
- No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
- Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.
- Envy is blind. -Caeca invidia est
- Envy like fire always makes for the highest points.
- We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
- It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.
- The result showed that fortune helps the brave.
- Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.
- Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
- There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
- This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
- It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
- There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.