Livy Quotes

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.

We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.

Never is work without reward, or reward without work.

Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.

He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune's breeze is favorable, or cast down when it is adverse.

Adversity makes men remember God.

A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.

In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.

Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

The mind sins, not the body; if there is no intention, there is no blame.

Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.

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

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.

There is always more spirit in attack than in defence.

I have often heard that the outstanding man is he who thinks deeply about a problem, and the next is he who listens carefully to advice.

Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.

Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.

Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.

Envy, like flames, soars upwards.

There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.

Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.

In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.

Temerity is not always successful.

There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.