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
men slower
Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes.
less men outset
They are more than men at the outset of their battles; at the end they are less than the women.
men promise rewards
There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.
men views benefits
Nature has ordained that the man who is pleading his own cause before a large audience, will be more readily listened to than he who has no object in view other than the public benefit.
men suffering dread
Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely dread.
adversity men prosperity
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.
men haste doe
All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.
men wish violence
Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.
men luck disposition
Good fortune and a good disposition are rarely given to the same man.
men flying calamity
By flying, men often rush into the midst of calamities.
trust betrayal men
Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.
clever men shifting
Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
men trials guilty
It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.
fear men safe
Men are least safe from what success induces them not to fear.