All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.
- Titus Livius Quote
Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.
- Titus Livius Quote
Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.
- Titus Livius Quote
In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
- Titus Livius Quote
It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.
- Titus Livius Quote
It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
- Titus Livius Quote
It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task.
- Titus Livius Quote
Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.
- Titus Livius Quote
Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes.
- Titus Livius Quote
No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
- Titus Livius Quote
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.
- Titus Livius Quote
Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
- Titus Livius Quote
Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.
- Titus Livius Quote
Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.
- Titus Livius Quote
Temerity is not always successful.
- Titus Livius Quote
The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.
- Titus Livius Quote
The result showed that fortune helps the brave.
- Titus Livius Quote
There are laws for peace as well as war.
- Titus Livius Quote
There is always more spirit in attack than in defence.
- Titus Livius Quote
There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.
- Titus Livius Quote
There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
- Titus Livius Quote
This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
- Titus Livius Quote
Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
- Titus Livius Quote
Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own.
- Titus Livius Quote
We can endure neither our vices nor the remedies for them.
- Titus Livius Quote