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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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It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult and arduous.
A foolish superstition introduces the influences of the gods even in the smallest matters.
Men's plans should be regulated by the circumstances, not circumstances by the plans.
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.
Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.
Men's minds are too ingenious in palliating guilt in themselves.
The injury done to character is greater than can be estimated.
Apprehensions are greater in proportion as things are unknown.
The fidelity of barbarians depends on fortune.
Necessity is the last and strongest weapon.
The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.
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.
To those to whom war is necessary it is just; and a resort to arms is righteous in those to whom no means of assistance remain except by arms.
Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.
This above all makes history useful and desirable: it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty.
He was always before men’s eyes; a course of action which, by increasing our familiarity with great men, diminishes our respect for them.
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.
Law is a thing which is insensible, and inexorable, more beneficial and more profitious to the weak than to the strong; it admits of no mitigation nor pardon, once you have overstepped its limits.
I do honestly believe that no country has ever been greater or purer than ours or richer in good citizens and noble deeds...