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“Better late than never.”
Potius sero quam nunquam.

Book IV, sec. 2
History of Rome

“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.”

Book XXVII, sec. 44
History of Rome

“They lived under a just and moderate government, and they admitted that one bond of their fidelity was that their rulers were the better men.”

Book XXII, sec. 83
History of Rome

“Temerity is not always successful.”

Book XXVIII, sec. 42
History of Rome

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

Book V, sec. 37
History of Rome

“It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.”

Book XXX, sec. 30
History of Rome

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

Book XXXIV, sec. 4
History of Rome

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

Book XL, sec. 46
History of Rome

“Such impetuous schemes and boldness are at first sight alluring, but are difficult to handle, and in the result disastrous.”

Book XXXV, sec. 32
History of Rome

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

Praefatio, sec. 4
History of Rome

“There is always more spirit in attack than in defense.”

Book XXVIII, sec. 44
History of Rome

“The name of freedom regained is sweet to hear.”

Book XXIV, sec. 21
History of Rome

“We do not learn this only from the event, which is the master of fools.”

Book XXII, sec. 39
History of Rome

“Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.”

Book XXVI, sec. 11
History of Rome

“The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.”

Book III, sec. 39
History of Rome

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

Book V, sec. 4
History of Rome

“He would not anticipate those counsels which are rather bestowed by circumstances on men, than by men on circumstances.”

Book XXII, sec. 38
History of Rome

“No law is sufficiently convenient to all.”

Book XXXIV, sec. 3
History of Rome

“The state is suffering from two opposite vices, avarice and luxury; two plagues which, in the past, have been the ruin of every great empire.”

Source: History of Rome, Book XXXIV, sec. 4

“No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.”

Book XXVIII, sec. 28
History of Rome