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Livy
70 quotes
“Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.”
Livy (59 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (59 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.”
Livy (59 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.”
Livy (59 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Good fortune and a good disposition are rarely given to the same man.”
Livy (59 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Livy (59 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No law is sufficiently convenient to all.”
Livy (59 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority.”
Livy (59 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The state is suffering from two opposite vices, avarice and luxury; two plagues which, in the past, have been the ruin of every great empire.”
Livy (59 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.”
Livy (59 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.”
Livy (59 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (59 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.”
Livy (59 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He was always before men’s eyes; a course of action which, by increasing our familiarity with great men, diminishes our respect for them.”
Livy (59 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Such impetuous schemes and boldness are at first sight alluring, but are difficult to handle, and in the result disastrous.”
Livy (59 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.”
Livy (59 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The sun has not yet set for all time.”
Livy (59 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.”
Livy (59 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.”
Livy (59 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Is demum vir erit, cuius animum neque prosperae res flatu suo efferent nec adversae infringent”
Livy (59 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source