Livy Quotes
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Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.
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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.
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Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.
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He will have true glory who despises it.
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Notissimum ... malum maxime tolerabile
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I hope my passion for Rome's past has not impaired my judgement, for I do honestly believe that no country has ever been greater or purer than ours or richer in good citizens and noble deeds...
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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.
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There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
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Envy like fire always makes for the highest points.
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The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see; and in that record you can find for yourself and your country both examples and warnings; fine things to take as models, base things, rotten through and through, to avoid.
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It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task.
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Vulgatior fama est ludibrio fratris Remum novos transiluisse muros; inde ab irato Romulo, cum verbis quoque increpitans adiecisset 'sic deinde, quicumque alius transiliet moenia mea', interfectum.
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He would not anticipate those counsels which are rather bestowed by circumstances on men, than by men on circumstances.
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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.
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It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.
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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...
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Potius sero quam nunquam.
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Men are slower to recognise blessings than misfortunes.
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The sun has not yet set for all time.
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In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
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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.
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Vae victis!
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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.
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The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.