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Livy Quotes

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.

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Also known as: Livius, Titus Livius

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It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.

We do not learn this only from the event, which is the master of fools.

In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.

Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.

It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.

Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.

Passions are generally roused from great conflict.

No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.

The result showed that fortune helps the brave.

No one wants to be excelled by his relatives.

No law is sufficiently convenient to all.

There are laws for peace as well as war.

He will have true glory who despises it.

Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely dread.

The flower of the young men (the flower of youth).

A woman's mind is affected by the meanest gifts.

Such is the nature of crowds: either they are humble and servile or arrogant and dominating. They are incapable of making moderate use of freedom, which is the middle course, or of keeping it.

Before anything else [Numa] decided that he must instill in his subjects the fear of the gods, this being the most effective measure with an ignorant, and at that time uncultured, people.

We can endure neither our vices nor the remedies for them.

As soon as she (woman) begins to be ashamed of what she ought not, she will not be ashamed of what she ought.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Livy (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.