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
law convenient
No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
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The sun has not yet set for all time.
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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.
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This was the Athenians' war against the King of Macedon, a war of words. Words are the only weapons the Athenians have left.
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The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.
glory despise
He will have true glory who despises it.
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We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
letting-go social abandoned
Once let good faith be abandoned, and all social existence would perish.
brave helping fortune
The result showed that fortune helps the brave.
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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.
men promise rewards
There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.
enmity should immortal
There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.
fire envy soar
Envy, like fire, soars upward.
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Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.