Livy Quotes - Page 5

There are laws for peace as well as war.

We feel public misfortunes just so far as they affect our private circumstances, and nothing of this nature appeals more directly to us than the loss of money.

Thus, if there is anyone who is confident that he can advise me as to the best advantage of the state in this campaign which I am about to conduct, let him not refuse his services to the state, but come with me into Macedonia. I will furnish him with his sea-passage, with a horse, a tent, and even travel-funds. If anyone is reluctant to do this and prefers the leisure of the city to the hardships of campaigning, let him not steer the ship from on shore.

Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.

There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.

This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.

You know how to vanquish, Hannibal, but you do not know how to profit from victory.

The best known evil is the most tolerable.

Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.

False shame only is harmful.

Envy is blind, and she has no other quality than that of detracting from virtue

A certain peace is better and safer than a victory in prospect; the former is at your own disposal, the latter depends upon the gods.

Envy like fire always makes for the highest points.

Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely dread.

Nothing stings us so bitterly as the loss of money

Nature has ordained that the man who is pleading his own cause before a large audience, will be more readily listened to than he who has no object in view other than the public benefit.

Once let good faith be abandoned, and all social existence would perish.

Toil and pleasure, in their natures opposite, are yet linked together in a kind of necessary connection.

Envy is blind. -Caeca invidia est

It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.

By flying, men often rush into the midst of calamities.

Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.