Persevere in virtue and diligence.
LIVYBad beginnings, bad endings.
More Livy Quotes
-
-
Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.
LIVY -
Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.
LIVY -
Bad beginnings, bad endings.
LIVY -
Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.
LIVY -
We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
LIVY -
It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
LIVY -
An honor prudently declined often returns with increased luster.
LIVY -
A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.
LIVY -
We feel public misfortunes just so far as they affect our private circumstances, and nothing of this nature appeals more directly to us than the loss of money.
LIVY -
Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
LIVY -
Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.
LIVY -
Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
LIVY -
Envy, like flames, soars upwards.
LIVY -
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.
LIVY -
All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.
LIVY