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Men are only too clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
Book XXVIII, sec. 25 
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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917— Book XXX, sec. 30
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
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.
The 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 5917— Book I, sec. 17
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
In valor you are their equals; in necessity, the last and strongest weapon, their superiors.
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917— Book IV, sec. 28
There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917— Book IV, sec. 35
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
He would not anticipate those counsels which are rather bestowed by circumstances on men, than by men on circumstances.
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917— Book XXII, sec. 38
He will have true glory who despises it.
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917— Book XXII, sec. 39
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
Such 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 5917— Book XXIV, sec. 25
Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917— Book XXV, sec. 11
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
Men are slower to recognise blessings than misfortunes.
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917— Book XXX, sec. 21
Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917— Book XXX, sec. 30
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
There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917— Book XXXIV, sec. 4
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
Is demum uir erit, cuius animum neque prosperae <res> flatu suo efferent nec aduersae infringent.
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917— Translation: He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune’s breeze is favorable, or cast down when it is adverse.
— Book XLV, sec. 8
Parvis mobilis rebus animus muliebris.
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917— A woman's mind is affected by the meanest gifts.
— Livy, Annales, VI. 34.
