Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917 Quotes
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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
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
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
Before 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 5917— Book I, sec. 19
Law 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 5917— Book II, sec. 3
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
Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917— Book IV, sec. 57
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
Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917— Book XXII, sec. 39
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
In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917— Book XXV, sec. 38
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
Better 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 5917— Book XXX, sec. 30
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
The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917— Book XXXIV, sec. 14
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.
Barbaris ex fortuna pendet fides.
Livy Full Name Titus Livius 5917— The fidelity of barbarians depends on fortune.
— Livy, Annales, XXVIII. 17.
