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.
Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
I approach these questions unwillingly, as it wounds, but no cure can be effected without touching upon and handling them.
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.
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.
He will have true glory who despises it.
Notissimum [...] malum maxime tolerabile
There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
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.
This above all makes history useful and desirable: it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task.
The name of freedom regained is sweet to hear.
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.
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.
In valor you are their equals; in necessity, the last and strongest weapon, their superiors.
The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.
There is always more spirit in attack than in defense.
It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.