Livy Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“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 yourself and your country both examples and warnings; fine things to take as models, base things rotten through and through, to avoid.”
-- Livy

#Country #Medicine #Sick

“Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.”
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#Gratitude #Blessing #Men

“Adversity makes men remember God.”
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#Adversity #Men #Remember

“It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.”
-- Livy

#Maturity #Long #Excellence

“A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.”
-- Livy

#Betrayal #Betrayed #Ends

“From abundance springs satiety.”
-- Livy

#Spring #Abundance #Satiety

“Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.”
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#Men #Danger #Spite

“An honor prudently declined often returns with increased luster.”
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#Honor #Return

“In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.”
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#Adversity #Desire #Assuming

“Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.”
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#Trust #Betrayal #Men

“Envy is blind. -Caeca invidia est”
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#Envy #Blind

“Envy like fire always makes for the highest points.”
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#Fire #Envy

“No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.”
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#Wickedness #Reason

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

#Time #Better Late Than Never

“Valor is the soldier's adornment.”
-- Livy

#Military #Soldier #Valor

“The less there is of fear, the less there is of danger.”
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#Military #Danger

“Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.”
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#Time #Spring #Events

“Certain peace is better and safer than anticipated victory.”
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#Peace #Victory #Harmony

“The army from Asia introduced a foreign luxury to Rome; it was then the meals began to require more dishes and more expenditure . . . the cook, who had up to that time been employed as a slave of low price, become dear: what had been nothing but a metier was elevated to an art.”
-- Livy

#Art #Army #Rome

“The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself - something that's in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered.”
-- Livy

#Success #Congratulations #Real

“Once let good faith be abandoned, and all social existence would perish.”
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#Letting Go #Social #Abandoned

“We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.”
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#Adversity #Comfort #Ease

“No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level.”
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#Men #Envy #Levels

“Envy, like fire, soars upward.”
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#Fire #Envy #Soar

“Persevere in virtue and diligence.”
-- Livy

#Perseverance #Persistence #Persevere

“Thus, if there is anyone who is confident that he can advise me as to the best advantage of the state in this campaign which I am about to conduct, let him not refuse his services to the state, but come with me into Macedonia. I will furnish him with his sea-passage, with a horse, a tent, and even travel-funds. If anyone is reluctant to do this and prefers the leisure of the city to the hardships of campaigning, let him not steer the ship from on shore.”
-- Livy

#Horse #Sea #Cities

“Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.”
-- Livy

#Immortal #Hostility

“Toil and pleasure, in their natures opposite, are yet linked together in a kind of necessary connection.”
-- Livy

#Opposites #Together #Toil

“No law is quite appropriate for all.”
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#Law

“Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.”
-- Livy

#Matter #Dignity #Mankind