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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
Book XXX, sec. 30 |
Men are only too clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917From abundance springs satiety.
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917Under 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 5917For 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 5917Sic deinde, quicumque alius transiliet moenia mea!
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917Before anything else [Numa] decided that he must instill in his subjects the fear of the gods, this being the most effective measure with an ignorant, and at that time uncultured, people.
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917Law is a thing which is insensible, and inexorable, more beneficial and more profitious to the weak than to the strong; it admits of no mitigation nor pardon, once you have overstepped its limits.
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917Potius sero quam numquam.
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917In valor you are their equals; in necessity, the last and strongest weapon, their superiors.
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917Luck 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 5917He would not anticipate those counsels which are rather bestowed by circumstances on men, than by men on circumstances.
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917He will have true glory who despises it.
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917Such is the nature of crowds: either they are humble and servile or arrogant and dominating. They are incapable of making moderate use of freedom, which is the middle course, or of keeping it.
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917Greater is our terror of the unknown.
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917Men are slower to recognise blessings than misfortunes.
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917Better and safer is an assured peace than a victory hoped for. The one is in your own power, the other is in the hands of the gods.
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917Is demum uir erit, cuius animum neque prosperae <res> flatu suo efferent nec aduersae infringent.
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917Parvis mobilis rebus animus muliebris.
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917Barbaris ex fortuna pendet fides.
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917