Livy Quotes

Livy (Roman - Historian)

 

59 BC - 17

 

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Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes.

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

Woe to the conquered.

 

 

 

Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own.

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

We can endure neither our vices nor the remedies for them.

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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