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
boldest difficult hopeless plans situations
In difficult and hopeless situations the boldest plans are the safest.
humble use arrogant
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.
sins-not mind body
The mind sins, not the body; if there is no intention, there is no blame.
endurance bears familiar
Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
time spring events
Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
wickedness reason
No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
time better-late-than-never late
Potius sero quam nunquam. Better late than never.
glory despise
He will have true glory who despises it.
envy blind
Envy is blind. -Caeca invidia est
enmity should immortal
There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.
shame ashamed ought
As soon as she (woman) begins to be ashamed of what she ought not, she will not be ashamed of what she ought.
complicated reason
Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.
terror greater
Greater is our terror of the unknown.
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.