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Famous Livy Quotes
“Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.”
“It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.”
“Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.”
“Good fortune and a good disposition are rarely given to the same man.”
“Envy, like flames, soars upwards.”
“Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.”
“Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.”
“Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.”
“No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.”
“Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.”
“We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.”
“It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.”
“Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.”
“Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.”
“There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.”
“It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.”
“There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.”
“In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.”
“Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.”