Livy Quotes - Page 4

Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.

It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.

In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.

Greater is our terror of the unknown.

No law is quite appropriate for all.

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.

Valor is the soldier's adornment.

Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.

Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.

Woe to the conquered.

...war is just to those for whom it is necessary, and arms are clear of impiety for those who have no hope left but in arms.

War is just to those to whom war is necessary.

It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult and arduous

Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.

The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.

This was the Athenians' war against the King of Macedon, a war of words. Words are the only weapons the Athenians have left.

A woman's mind is affected by the meanest gifts.

Law is a thing which is insensible, and inexorable, more beneficial and more profitious to the weak than to the strong; it admits of no mitigation nor pardon, once you have overstepped its limits.

From abundance springs satiety.

Passions are generally roused from great conflict.

Good fortune and a good disposition are rarely given to the same man.

That sense – the only true patriotism – comes slowly and springs from the heart: it is founded upon respect for the family and love for the soil. Premature ‘liberty’ of this kind would have been a disaster: we should have been torn to pieces by petty squabbles before we had ever reached political maturity, which, as things were, as made possible by the long quiet years under monarchical government; for it was that government which, as it were, nursed our strength and enabled us ultimately to produce sound fruit from liberty, as only a politically adult nation can.

The name of freedom regained is sweet to hear.

Adversity reminds men of religion.