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.
Aetolos Acarnanas Macedonas, eiusdem linguae homines, leues ad tempus ortae causae diiungunt coniunguntque: cum alienigenis, cum barbaris aeternum omnibus Graecis bellum est eritque; natura enim, quae perpetua est, non mutabilibus in diem causis hostes sunt...
Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
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.
We feel public misfortunes just so far as they affect our private circumstances, and nothing of this nature appeals more directly to us than the loss of money.
The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.
There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.
It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.
Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.
In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.
Men are slower to recognise blessings than misfortunes.
Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.
Such impetuous schemes and boldness are at first sight alluring, but are difficult to handle, and in the result disastrous.
Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
There is always more spirit in attack than in defense.
The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.
In valor you are their equals; in necessity, the last and strongest weapon, their superiors.
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.
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.