Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Great contests generally excite great animosities.
Livy
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Livy
Historian
Poet
Writer
Padova
Livy
Titus Livius Patavinus
Animosity
Excite
Contention
Contests
Generally
Great
Animosities
More quotes by Livy
Greater is our terror of the unknown.
Livy
Toil and pleasure, in their natures opposite, are yet linked together in a kind of necessary connection.
Livy
Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.
Livy
Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
Livy
In war, mere appearances have had all the effect of realities and that a person, under a firm persuasion that he can command resources, virtually has them that very prospect inspiring him with hope and boldness in his exertions.
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
The best known evil is the most tolerable.
Livy
This was the Athenians' war against the King of Macedon, a war of words. Words are the only weapons the Athenians have left.
Livy
Haste is blind and improvident.
Livy
I have often heard that the outstanding man is he who thinks deeply about a problem, and the next is he who listens carefully to advice.
Livy
He will have true glory who despises it.
Livy
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.
Livy
Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.
Livy
Law is a thing which is insensible, and inexorable, more beneficial and more profitious to the weak than to the strong it admits of no mitigation nor pardon, once you have overstepped its limits.
Livy
There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.
Livy
Men are least safe from what success induces them not to fear.
Livy
As soon as she (woman) begins to be ashamed of what she ought not, she will not be ashamed of what she ought.
Livy
By flying, men often rush into the midst of calamities.
Livy
Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.
Livy
Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.
Livy