Livy Quotes about Victory

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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.

Peace, Hands, Victory

Livy, Benjamin Oliver Foster, Frank Gardner Moore, Evan Taylor Sage, Alfred Cary Schlesinger (1949). “Livy: Books XXVIII-XXX”

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

Victory, Vanquish, Profit

"History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXII, section 51,

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.

Peace, Victory, Anti War

"The History of Rome".