Livy Quotes - Page 5

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

  Livy

  Men, Luck, Fortune

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXX, section 42,

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• 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

  Strong, Law, Limits

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book II, section 3,

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• From abundance springs satiety.

  Livy

  Spring, Abundance, Satiety

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book III, section 1,

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• 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.

  Livy

  Loss, Appeals, Circumstances

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXX, section 44,

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• The best known evil is the most tolerable.

  Livy

  Evil, Tolerable, Known

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXIII, section 3,

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• The name of freedom regained is sweet to hear.

  Livy

  Sweet, Names

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXIV, section 21,

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• False shame only is harmful.

  Livy

  Vergüenza

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

  Livy

  Opposites, Together, Toil

  Livy (1823). “The History of Rome”, p.417

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• Los sufrimientos presentes parecen mucho mayores a los hombres que los que simplemente temen.

  Livy

  Men, Suffering, Dread

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, "Annales", III. 39, (pp. 762-763), 1922.

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• That sense – the only true patriotism – comes slowly and springs from the heart: it is founded upon respect for the family and love for the soil. Premature ‘liberty’ of this kind would have been a disaster: we should have been torn to pieces by petty squabbles before we had ever reached political maturity, which, as things were, as made possible by the long quiet years under monarchical government; for it was that government which, as it were, nursed our strength and enabled us ultimately to produce sound fruit from liberty, as only a politically adult nation can.

  Livy

  Spring, Heart, Maturity

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• There are laws for peace as well as war.

  Livy

  Paz, Guerra, Derecho

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book V, section 27,

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• Por lo tanto, si hay alguien que confía en que puede aconsejarme en cuanto a la mejor ventaja del Estado en esta campaña que estoy a punto de dirigir, que no niegue sus servicios al Estado, sino que venga conmigo a Macedonia. Yo le proporcionaré el pasaje marítimo, un caballo, una tienda e incluso los fondos para el viaje. Si alguien se resiste a hacerlo y prefiere el ocio de la ciudad a las penurias de la campaña, que no dirija el barco desde la costa.

  Livy

  Horse, Sea, Cities

  Book 44, chapter 22. Reported in "Livy" by Alfred C. Schlesinger, vol. 13, p. 161, 1951.

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• La fama oportunamente despreciada suele volver redoblada.

  Livy

  Glory, Fame, Despised

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book II, section 47,

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

  Livy

  Eye, Records, Action

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Praefatio, section 10,

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

  Livy

  Victory, Vanquish, Profit

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

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• Envy is blind. -Caeca invidia est

  Livy

  Envy, Blind

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

  Livy

  Men, Trials, Guilty

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXXIV, section 4,

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

  Livy

  Letting Go, Social, Abandoned

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• Envy like fire always makes for the highest points.

  Livy

  Fire, Envy, Highest

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book VIII, section 31,

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

  Livy

  Fall, Honor, Desire

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book IV, section 57,

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• Nothing stings us so bitterly as the loss of money

  Livy

  Money, Loss

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

  Livy

  Men, Flying, Midst

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