Livy Quotes - Page 3

Wit is the flower of the imagination.

Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.

Haste is blind and improvident.

The study of History is the best medicine for a sick mind.

Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.

It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.

An honor prudently declined often returns with increased luster.

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.

Bad beginnings, bad endings.

The result showed that fortune helps the brave.

Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.

Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.

Men are least safe from what success induces them not to fear.

Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.

The less there is of fear, the less there is of danger.

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.

Necessity is the last and strongest weapon.

Luck rules every human endeavor, especially war.

Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.

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.

Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.

As soon as she (woman) begins to be ashamed of what she ought not, she will not be ashamed of what she ought.

When Tarquin the Proud was asked what was the best mode of governing a conquered city, he replied only by beating down with his staff all the tallest poppies in his garden.

The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty.

The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.