Livy: Quotes about nature

Livy was Roman historian. Explore interesting quotes on nature.

Livy: 140 quotes 72 likes

“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

Book XXX, sec. 44
History of Rome

Money , Feeling , Nature , Loss

“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

Book III, sec. 68
History of Rome

Nature

“Such is the nature of crowds: either they are humble and servile or arrogant and dominating. They are incapable of making moderate use of freedom, which is the middle course, or of keeping it.”

Livy

Book XXIV, sec. 25
History of Rome

Nature , Freedom

“The Aitolians, the Akarnanians, the Macedonians, men of the same speech, are united or disunited by trivial causes that arise from time to time; with aliens, with barbarians, all Greeks wage and will wage eternal war; for they are enemies by the will of nature, which is eternal, and not from reasons that change from day to day…”
Aetolos Acarnanas Macedonas, eiusdem linguae homines, leues ad tempus ortae causae diiungunt coniunguntque: cum alienigenis, cum barbaris aeternum omnibus Graecis bellum est eritque; natura enim, quae perpetua est, non mutabilibus in diem causis hostes sunt...

Livy

Liber XXXI, 29, 15

Men , War , Nature , Change

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

Livy

Book V, sec. 4
History of Rome

Pleasure , Nature

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

Livy

Book XXVI, sec. 11
History of Rome

Nature