Quotes by Titus Livius

• This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
• Woe to the conquered.
• The sun has not yet set for all time.
• We can endure neither our vices nor the remedies for them.
• Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own.
• Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
• Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
• There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.
• Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
• It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.
• It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
• It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task.
• Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.
• Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.
• Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
• Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes.
• In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
• 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.
• The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.
• Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.
• Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.
• Temerity is not always successful.
• They are more than men at the outset of their battles; at the end they are less than the women.
• The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.
• There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
• The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.
• No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
• There is always more spirit in attack than in defence.
• The result showed that fortune helps the brave.
• There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.
• There are laws for peace as well as war.
• All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.
• He will have true glory who despises it.
• From abundance springs satiety.
• Envy like fire always makes for the highest points.
• A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.
• Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.
• Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.