“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.”
Is demum vir erit, cuius animum neque prosperae res flatu suo efferent nec adversae infringent
Book XLV, sec. 8
History of Rome
“In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.”
Book XXV, sec. 38
History of Rome
Praefatio, sec. 10
History of Rome
“Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.”
Book XXII, sec. 39
History of Rome
“The best known evil is the most tolerable.”
Notissimum [...] malum maxime tolerabile
Book XXIII, sec. 3
History of Rome
Variant: Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
Book XXVIII, sec. 27
History of Rome
Book XXXIV, sec. 3
History of Rome
Book IV, sec. 35
History of Rome
“There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.”
Book XXXIX, sec. 16
History of Rome
Book XLIV, sec. 15
History of Rome
“The more common report is that Remus mockingly jumped over the newly raised walls and was forthwith killed by the enraged Romulus, who exclaimed, "So shall it be henceforth with every one who leaps over my walls."”
Vulgatior fama est ludibrio fratris Remum novos transiluisse muros; inde ab irato Romulo, cum verbis quoque increpitans adiecisset 'sic deinde, quicumque alius transiliet moenia mea', interfectum.
Book I, sec. 7
History of Rome
“Men are only too clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.”
Book XXVIII, sec. 25
History of Rome