Top 100 Livy's Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Livy's

#1. I joined the Pass Mods. class and studied the cyropaedia and Livy's Wars with a resentful feeling that there was quite enough war in the world without having to read about it in Latin

Vera Brittain

#2. Their eyes locked. Again, heat rose to Livy's cheeks. He needed to stop looking at her that way. She never should have noticed the captivating hue of his sky-blue eyes. When was the last time a man flustered her like this. Maybe never.

Teresa Tysinger

#3. Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.

Livy

#4. The result showed that fortune helps the brave.

Livy

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

Livy

#6. their morals, at first as slightly giving way, anon how they sunk more and more, then began to fall headlong, until he reaches the present times, when we can neither endure our vices, nor their remedies.

Livy

#7. 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.

Livy

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

Livy

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

Livy

#10. The army from Asia introduced a foreign luxury to Rome; it was then the meals began to require more dishes and more expenditure ... the cook, who had up to that time been employed as a slave of low price, become dear: what had been nothing but a metier was elevated to an art.

Livy

#11. [1.9]The Roman State had now become so strong that it was a match for any of its neighbours in war, but its greatness threatened to last for only one generation, since through the absence of women there was no hope of offspring, and there was no right of intermarriage with their neighbours.

Livy

#12. Efferfreshpainted livy, in beautific repose, upon the silence of the dead, from pharoph the nextfirst down to ramescheckles the last bust thing. The Vico road goes round and round to meet where terms begin.

James Joyce

#13. He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune's breeze is favorable, or cast down when it is adverse.

Livy

#14. Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.

Livy

#15. The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of 'Tales from Livy' that I'd found in my grandfather's library.

Gore Vidal

#16. Adversity reminds men of religion.

Livy

#17. Nothing stings us so bitterly as the loss of money

Livy

#18. Men are slower to recognise blessings than misfortunes.

Livy

#19. 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.

Livy

#20. From abundance springs satiety.

Livy

#21. The Roman envoys replied that they would go where their own generals led them, not where bidden by their enemies.

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

Livy

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

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#24. There is always more spirit in attack than in defence.

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#25. 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.

Livy

#26. They are more than men at the outset of their battles; at the end they are less than the women.

Livy

#27. Livy had never shared another woman's space before, at least not in that vest. It

Michela O'Brien

#28. Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.

Livy

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

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#30. The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.

Livy

#31. No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.

Livy

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

Livy

#33. Envy, like flames, soars upwards.

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#34. Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.

Livy

#35. Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.

Livy

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

Livy

#37. Bethink yourself not whence you sprang, but who you are.

Livy

#38. In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.

Livy

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

Livy

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

Livy

#41. Fucking hell, Livy. If you're going to nab a decent bloke, then you need to be a little more enthusiastic." She's

Jodi Ellen Malpas

#42. Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes.

Livy

#43. War is just to those to whom war is necessary.

Livy

#44. It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task.

Livy

#45. Envy like fire always makes for the highest points.

Livy

#46. 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.

Livy

#47. Potius sero quam nunquam.
Better late than never.

Livy

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

Livy

#49. No law is sufficiently convenient to all.

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#50. No law is quite appropriate for all.

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

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

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#53. Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.

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#54. There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.

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#55. Wit is the flower of the imagination.

Livy

#56. Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.

Livy

#57. 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.

Livy

#58. Fear looks always on the darker side...

Livy

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

Livy

#60. That business does not prosper which you transact with the eyes of others.

Livy

#61. An honor prudently declined often returns with increased luster.

Livy

#62. Greater is our terror of the unknown.

Livy

#63. No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.

Livy

#64. Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.

Livy

#65. When Numa died, Rome by the twin disciplines of peace and war was as eminent for self-mastery as for military power.

Livy

#66. I have often heard that the outstanding man is he who thinks deeply about a problem, and the next is he who listens carefully to advice.

Livy

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

Livy

#68. There are laws for peace as well as war.

Livy

#69. There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.

Livy

#70. We seek out other people to fight off the loneliness but it's like we're children playing at pretend. We are alone in everything we do, Livy. Alone but not without company.

Shari Arnold

#71. Passions are generally roused from great conflict.

Livy

#72. The sun has not yet set for all time.

Livy

#73. No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level.

Livy

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

Livy

#75. Sometimes you do find what you're looking for closer than you think

Ann Howard Creel

#76. Nothing hurts worse than the loss of money.

Livy

#77. Haste is blind and improvident.

Livy

#78. The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself - something that's in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered.

Livy

#79. Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.

Livy

#80. In these latter years wealth has brought avarice in its train, and the unlimited command of pleasure has created in men a passion for ruining themselves and everything else through self-indulgence and licentiousness.

Livy

#81. So what's going on?" Livy asked after spitting out a bit more blood.
"Got a job for you."
"Will I be whoring?"
"Not this time. I'm sorry."
"You know how I love to whore," Livy stated with that flat tone that freaked people out, because no one ever knew whether she was joking or not.

Shelly Laurenston

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

Livy

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

Livy

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

Livy

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

Livy

#86. Valor is the soldier's adornment.

Livy

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

Livy

#88. Men of outstanding ability are more likely to lack the power of controlling their own people than of defeating an enemy in battle.

Livy

#89. Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.

Livy

#90. 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.

Livy

#91. Temerity is not always successful.

Livy

#92. A person under the firm persuasion that he can command resources virtually has them.

Livy

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

Livy

#94. Of late years wealth has made us greedy, and self-indulgence has brought us, through every kind of sensual excess, to be, if I may so put it, in love with death both individual and collective

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