Titus Livius Quotes
"Woe to the conquered."
- Titus Livius
"The sun has not yet set for all time."
- Titus Livius
(Related: Time, Sun)
"We can endure neither our vices nor the remedies for them."
- Titus Livius
(Related: Remedies, Vices)
"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."
- Titus Livius
(Related: Men, Fear, Enemies, Influence)
"Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed."
- Titus Livius
(Related: Truth, Difficulties)
"Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond."
- Titus Livius
(Related: Nature, Pleasure, United)
"There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards."
- Titus Livius
(Related: Man, Nothing, Promise, Will)
"Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war."
- Titus Livius
(Related: War, Calculations)
"It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted."
- Titus Livius
(Related: Man)
"It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors."
- Titus Livius
(Related: Errors, Past)
"It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task."
- Titus Livius
(Related: Fortune, Surrender)
"Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment."
- Titus Livius
(Related: Control, Intellect, Judgment, Luck)
"Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence."
- Titus Livius
(Related: Intelligence, Nature, Difficulties, Exercise, May)
"Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others."
- Titus Livius
(Related: Men, Blame)
"Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes."
- Titus Livius
(Related: Men, Blessings)
"In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest."
- Titus Livius
"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."
- Titus Livius
(Related: Law, Majority)
"The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom."
- Titus Livius
(Related: Freedom, Old, Sweetness)
"Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never."
- Titus Livius
"Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness."
- Titus Livius
(Related: Greatness, Beginnings, Now, Rome)
"Temerity is not always successful."
- Titus Livius
(Related: Successful)
"They are more than men at the outset of their battles; at the end they are less than the women."
- Titus Livius
(Related: Men, Women, End)
"The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze."
- Titus Livius
(Related: Sea, Wind)
"There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty."
- Titus Livius
(Related: Being, Nothing, Poverty)
"The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening."
- Titus Livius
"No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds."
- Titus Livius
(Related: Crime)
"There is always more spirit in attack than in defence."
- Titus Livius
(Related: Spirit)
"The result showed that fortune helps the brave."
- Titus Livius
(Related: Fortune, Result)
"There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed."
- Titus Livius
(Related: Nothing)
"There are laws for peace as well as war."
- Titus Livius
(Related: Peace, War, Laws)
"All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident."
- Titus Livius
(Related: Blind, Haste, Man, Will)
"He will have true glory who despises it."
- Titus Livius
(Related: Glory, Will)
"From abundance springs satiety."
- Titus Livius
(Related: Abundance)
"Envy like fire always makes for the highest points."
- Titus Livius
(Related: Envy, Fire)
"A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself."
- Titus Livius
(Related: End, Will)
"Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them."
- Titus Livius
(Related: Desire, Honor)
"Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts."
- Titus Livius
(Related: Men, Fortune, Violence)