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Titus Livius (around 59 BC – 17 AD), 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.
Also known as: Livius, Titus Livius
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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.
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.
In great straits and when hope is small, the boldest counsels are the safest.
Nothing stings more deeply than the loss of money.
The best known evil is the most tolerable.
There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.
Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
Good fortune and a good disposition are rarely given to the same man.
Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.
You need only a show of war to have peace.
The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.
All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.
The populace is like the sea, motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.
They are more than men at the outset of their battles; at the end they are less than the women.
It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.
Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.
Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.
Men are only too clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.