Livy
This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.Collection: History
Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.Collection: Intelligence
The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.Collection: Freedom
Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.Collection: Truth
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.Collection: Inspirational
We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.Collection: Adversity
Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.Collection: Gratitude
Never is work without reward, or reward without work.Collection: Rewards
Adversity makes men remember God.Collection: Adversity
Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.Collection: Truth
A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.Collection: Betrayal
In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.Collection: Littles
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.Collection: Adversity
It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.Collection: Teacher
All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.Collection: Men
The mind sins, not the body; if there is no intention, there is no blame.Collection: Sins Not
There is always more spirit in attack than in defence.Collection: Spirit
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.Collection: Success
Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.Collection: Men
I have often heard that the outstanding man is he who thinks deeply about a problem, and the next is he who listens carefully to advice.Collection: Men
Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.Collection: Time
Envy, like flames, soars upwards.Collection: Flames
He will have true glory who despises it.Collection: Glory
No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.Collection: Wickedness
Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.Collection: Feelings
Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.Collection: Luxury
The sun has not yet set for all time.Collection: Sun
There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.Collection: Attractive
An honor prudently declined often returns with increased luster.Collection: Honor
No law is sufficiently convenient to all.Collection: Law
Men are least safe from what success induces them not to fear.Collection: Fear
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.Collection: Law
Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.Collection: Clever
It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.Collection: Trust
The result showed that fortune helps the brave.Collection: Brave
Temerity is not always successful.Collection: Successful
Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.Collection: Ties
In war, mere appearances have had all the effect of realities; and that a person, under a firm persuasion that he can command resources, virtually has them; that very prospect inspiring him with hope and boldness in his exertions.Collection: Leadership
Necessity is the last and strongest weapon.Collection: Weapons
Luck rules every human endeavor, especially war.Collection: Peace
The less there is of fear, the less there is of danger.Collection: Military
Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.Collection: Humble
Wit is the flower of the imagination.Collection: Flower
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.Collection: Peace
Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.Collection: Moving
Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.Collection: Endurance
Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.Collection: Time
As soon as she (woman) begins to be ashamed of what she ought not, she will not be ashamed of what she ought.Collection: Shame
When Tarquin the Proud was asked what was the best mode of governing a conquered city, he replied only by beating down with his staff all the tallest poppies in his garden.Collection: Garden
The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty.Collection: Poverty