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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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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.
The sun has not yet set for all time.
Temerity is not always successful.
You know how to vanquish, Hannibal, but you do not know how to profit from victory.
Greater is our terror of the unknown.
Evil is fittest to consort with evil.
Adversity reminds men of religion.
Rashness is not always fortunate.
Experience is the teacher of fools.
The more common report is that Remus mockingly jumped over the newly raised walls and was forthwith killed by the enraged Romulus, who exclaimed, "So shall it be henceforth with every one who leaps over my walls."
I shall find antiquity a rewarding study, if only because, while I am absorbed in it, I shall be able to turn my eyes from the troubles which for so long have tormented the modern world.
From abundance springs satiety.
The Aitolians, the Akarnanians, the Macedonians, men of the same speech, are united or disunited by trivial causes that arise from time to time; with aliens, with barbarians, all Greeks wage and will wage eternal war; for they are enemies by the will of nature, which is eternal, and not from reasons that change from day to day...
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.