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Livy


Known as Livy in English, wrote a monumental history of Rome, Ab Urbe Condita, from its founding (traditionally dated to 753 BC) through the reign of Augustus.
Livy
Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
Livy quotes
I approach these questions unwillingly, as it wounds, but no cure can be effected without touching upon and handling them.
Livy
They lived under a just and moderate government, and they admitted that one bond of their fidelity was that their rulers were the better men.




Livy quotes
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
Vae victis!
Livy quotes
He will have true glory who despises it.
Livy
Notissimum [...] malum maxime tolerabile
Livy quotes
There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
Livy
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.
Livy
This above all makes history useful and desirable: it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
Livy
No law is sufficiently convenient to all.




Livy quotes
It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task.
Livy
The name of freedom regained is sweet to hear.
Livy quotes
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
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 quotes
In valor you are their equals; in necessity, the last and strongest weapon, their superiors.
Livy
The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.
Livy quotes
There is always more spirit in attack than in defense.
Livy
It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.


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