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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
Book XXX, sec. 30 
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Men are only too clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917— Book XXVIII, sec. 25
From abundance springs satiety.
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917— Book III, sec. 1
Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917— Book V, sec. 4
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.
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917— Book XXVII, sec. 44
For he considered that, in many cases, but especially in war, mere appearances have had all the effect of realities; and that a person, under a firm persuasion that he can command resources, virtually has them; that very prospect inspiring him with hope and boldness in his exertions.
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917— Book XXXIV, sec. 12
Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917— Praefatio, sec. 4
We can endure neither our vices nor the remedies for them.
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917— Praefatio, sec. 9
This above all makes history useful and desirable: it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917— Praefatio, sec. 10
Sic deinde, quicumque alius transiliet moenia mea!
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917— Translation: And so be damned, whomever shall jump over my walls!
— Book I, sec. 7
— Spoken when Romulus slew his brother Remus for jumping over the walls of his encampment (soon to be Rome) in mockery.
Passions are generally roused from great conflict.
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917— Book III, sec. 40
Nature has ordained that the man who is pleading his own cause before a large audience, will be more readily listened to than he who has no object in view other than the public benefit.
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917— Book III, sec. 68
Potius sero quam numquam.
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917— Translation: Better late than never.
— Variant: Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.
— Book IV, sec. 2
The result showed that fortune helps the brave.
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917— Book VIII, sec. 29
Envy like fire always makes for the highest points.
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917— Book VIII, sec. 31
They are more than men at the outset of their battles; at the end they are less than the women.
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917— Book X, sec. 28
Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917— Book XXII, sec. 25
Notissimum [...] malum maxime tolerabile
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917— Translation: The best known evil is the most tolerable.
— Variant: Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
— Book XXIII, sec. 3
The name of freedom regained is sweet to hear.
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917— Book XXIV, sec. 21
It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task.
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917— Book XXIV, sec. 22
Temerity is not always successful.
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917— Book XXVIII, sec. 42
There is always more spirit in attack than in defense.
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917— Book XXVIII, sec. 44
Greater is our terror of the unknown.
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917— Book XXVIII, sec. 44
No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917— Book XXXIV, sec. 3
No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority.
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917— History of Rome, Book XXXIV, sec. 3.
The state is suffering from two opposite vices, avarice and luxury; two plagues which, in the past, have been the ruin of every great empire.
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917— Book XXXIV, sec. 4
It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917— Book XXXIV, sec. 4
The sun has not yet set for all time.
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917— Book XXXIX, sec. 26
There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917— Book XL, sec. 46
A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917— Book XLIV, sec. 15
