Livy
Livy
Titus Livius—known as Livy /ˈlɪvi/ in English—was a Roman historian who wrote a monumental history of Rome and the Roman people – Ab Urbe Condita Libri– covering the period from the earliest legends of Rome before the traditional foundation in 753 BC through the reign of Augustus in Livy's own time. He was on familiar terms with the Julio-Claudian dynasty, advising Augustus's grandnephew, the future emperor Claudius, as a young man not long before 14 AD in a letter to...
NationalityRoman
ProfessionHistorian
passion conflict
Passions are generally roused from great conflict.
want
No one wants to be excelled by his relatives.
crime rational
No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
successful
Temerity is not always successful.
loss appeals circumstances
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.
serious threatening trouble
The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.
law convenient
No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
law majority convenience
No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority.
terror greater
Greater is our terror of the unknown.
fame glory despised
Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.
adversity men prosperity
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.
peace hands victory
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.
woe defeat
Woe to the conquered.
trust fortune trusted
It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.