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

#1. 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

#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. 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

#4. 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

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James Joyce

#6. 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

#7. 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

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

Michela O'Brien

#9. In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest. Livy Never make a defense or apology before you be accused.

Charles I Of England

#10. I want to surrender myself to you completely, Livy. I want to be yours. You are my perfect.

Jodi Ellen Malpas

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

Livy

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

Ann Howard Creel

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

Livy

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

Livy

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

Livy

#16. Passions are generally roused from great conflict.

Livy

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

Livy

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

Livy

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

Livy

#20. 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

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

Livy

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

Livy

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

Livy

#24. Greater is our terror of the unknown.

Livy

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

Livy

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

Livy

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

Livy

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

Livy

#29. 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

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

Livy

#31. Wit is the flower of the imagination.

Livy

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

Livy

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

Livy

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

Livy

#35. Never is work without reward, or reward without work.

Livy

#36. The best known evil is the most tolerable.

Livy

#37. Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.

Livy

#38. Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.

Livy

#39. He will have true glory who despises it.

Livy

#40. The less there is of fear, the less there is of danger.

Livy

#41. 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

Livy

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

Livy

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

Livy

#44. Temerity is not always successful.

Livy

#45. 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

#46. Haste is blind and improvident.

Livy

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

Livy

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

Livy

#49. Valor is the soldier's adornment.

Livy

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

Livy

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

Livy

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

Livy

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

Livy

#54. 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

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

Livy

#56. 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

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

Livy

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

Livy

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

Livy

#60. 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

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

Livy

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

Livy

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

Livy

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

Livy

#65. From abundance springs satiety.

Livy

#66. 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

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

Livy

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

Livy

#69. Adversity reminds men of religion.

Livy

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

Livy

#71. 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

#72. [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

#73. 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

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

Livy

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

Livy

#76. 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

#77. 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