Category: Quote of the Day

All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.

Livy

Envy like fire always makes for the highest points.

Livy

Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.

Livy

The result showed that fortune helps the brave.

Livy

Woe to the conquered!

Livy

Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.

Livy

Better late than never.

Livy

“Are you going to offer yourselves here to the weapons of the enemy, undefended, unavenged? Why is it then you have arms? And why have you undertaken an offensive war? You who are ever turbulent in peace, and laggard in war. What hopes have you in standing here? Do you expect that some god will protect you and bear you hence? A way is to be made with the sword. Come you, who wish to behold your homes, your parents, your wives, and your children; follow me in the way in which you shall see me lead you on. It is not a wall or rampart that blocks your path, but armed men like yourselves. Their equals in courage, you are their superiors by force of necessity, which is the last and greatest weapon.”

Livy

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.

Livy

In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.

Livy