Livy: Trending quotes (page 4)

“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

Book II, sec. 3
History of Rome

Law , Strong

“There are laws for peace as well as war.”

Livy

Book V, sec. 27
History of Rome

War , Peace , Law

“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

Book XXX, sec. 30
History of Rome

God , Peace , Hope , Victory

“For he considered that, in many cases, but especially in war, mere appearances have had all the effect of realities; and that a person, under a firm persuasion that he can command resources, virtually has them; that very prospect inspiring him with hope and boldness in his exertions.”

Livy

Book XXXIV, sec. 12 http://books.google.com/books?id=5f08AAAAYAAJ&q="For+he+considered+that+in+many+cases+but+especially+in+war+mere+appearances+have+had+all+the+effect+of+realities+and+that+a+person+under+a+firm+persuasion+that+he+can+command+resources+virtually+has+them+that+very+prospect+inspiring+him+with+hope+and+boldness+in+his+exertions"&pg=PA443#v=onepage
History of Rome

War , Hope , Reality , Appearance

“The result showed that fortune helps the brave.”

Livy

Book VIII, sec. 29
History of Rome

Help

“Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.”

Livy

Book II, sec. 47
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“Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.”

Livy

Book XXX, sec. 30
History of Rome

War

“The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see; and in that record you can find for yourself and your country both examples and warnings; fine things to take as models, base things, rotten through and through, to avoid.”

Livy

Introduction to Ab urbe condita (trans. Aubrey de Sélincourt, 1960)
Context: The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see; and in that record you can find for yourself and your country both examples and warnings; fine things to take as models, base things, rotten through and through, to avoid.
I hope my passion for Rome's past has not impaired my judgement, for I do honestly believe that no country has ever been greater or purer than ours or richer in good citizens and noble deeds...

History , Study , Country

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

Livy

Book XXII, sec. 39
History of Rome

“The sun has not yet set for all time.”

Livy

Book XXXIX, sec. 26
History of Rome

Time , Sun