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.
Such impetuous schemes and boldness are at first sight alluring, but are difficult to handle, and in the result disastrous.
Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.
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...
Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.
In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.
It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.
There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.
Men are slower to recognise blessings than misfortunes.
We do not learn this only from the event, which is the master of fools.
The result showed that fortune helps the brave.
There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.
The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.
Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.
Passions are generally roused from great conflict.
The populace is like the sea, motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.
Men are only too clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.
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.