Livy Quotes

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  • All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.

    "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXII, section 39,
  • Better late than never.

    "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book IV, section 2,
  • Passions are generally roused from great conflict.

    "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book III, section 40,
  • The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself - something that's in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered.

  • Envy, like flames, soars upwards.

    Livy (1833). “Livy”, p.52
  • The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty.

    "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, "Annales", XXXIV. 4, (p. 702), 1922.
  • Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.

    "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book II, section 47,
  • Luck rules every human endeavor, especially war.

  • Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.

    Livy (1949). “Livy”
  • Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.

  • Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.

    "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, "Annales", XXVII. 9, (pp. 815-816), 1922.
  • Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.

  • The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.

    "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXXIV, section 14,
  • Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.

  • Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.

    "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXX, section 30,
  • Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.

  • Temerity is not always successful.

    Livy (1909). “The history of Rome”
  • This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.

    "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Praefatio, section 10,
  • Envy like fire always makes for the highest points.

    "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book VIII, section 31,
  • Wit is the flower of the imagination.

  • It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

  • The best known evil is the most tolerable.

    "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXIII, section 3,
  • False shame only is harmful.

  • Haste is blind and improvident.

    "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXII, section 39,
  • There are laws for peace as well as war.

    "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book V, section 27,
  • The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see; and in that record you can find yourself and your country both examples and warnings; fine things to take as models, base things rotten through and through, to avoid.

    Livy, Lello Scorzelli (1972). “The History of Early Rome”
  • In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.

  • No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.

    "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXVIII, section 28,
  • This was the Athenians' war against the King of Macedon, a war of words. Words are the only weapons the Athenians have left.

  • Valor is the soldier's adornment.

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