Top 100 Titus Livy Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Certain peace is better and safer than anticipated victory.”

— Titus Livy

52. “Good fortune and a good disposition are rarely given to the same man.”

— Titus Livy

53. “It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult and arduous.”

— Titus Livy

54. “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.”

— Titus Livy

55. “Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.”

— Titus Livy

56. “Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.”

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57. “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.”

— Titus Livy

58. “Nothing stings us so bitterly as the loss of money.”

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59. “Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.”

— Titus Livy

60. “You know how to vanquish, Hannibal, but you do not know how to profit from victory.”

— Titus Livy

61. “Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.”

— Titus Livy

62. “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.”

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63. “There is always more spirit in attack than in defence.”

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64. “It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.”

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65. “The result showed that fortune helps the brave.”

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66. “No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.”

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67. “A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.”

— Titus Livy

68. “Adversity makes men remember God.”

— Titus Livy

69. “The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty.”

— Titus Livy

70. “Envy like fire always makes for the highest points.”

— Titus Livy

71. “He will have true glory who despises it.”

— Titus Livy

72. “Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.”

— Titus Livy

73. “That business does not prosper which you transact with the eyes of others.”

— Titus Livy

74. “Valor is the soldier’s adornment.”

— Titus Livy

75. “Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.”

— Titus Livy

76. “Men’s minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.”

— Titus Livy

77. “Better and safer is an assured peace than a victory hoped for. The one is in your own power, the other is in the hands of the gods.”

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78. “Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.”

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79. “Toil and pleasure, in their natures opposite, are yet linked together in a kind of necessary connection.”

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80. “Envy, like flames, soars upwards.”

— Titus Livy

81. “An honor prudently declined often returns with increased luster.”

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82. “Prosperity engenders sloth.”

— Titus Livy

83. “Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.”

— Titus Livy

84. “Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.”

— Titus Livy

85. “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.”

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86. “Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.”

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87. “Bad beginnings, bad endings.”

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88. “There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.”

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89. “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.”

— Titus Livy

90. “False shame only is harmful.”

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91. “No law is sufficiently convenient to all.”

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92. “No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level.”

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93. “Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely dread.”

— Titus Livy

94. “Great contests generally excite great animosities.”

— Titus Livy

95. “Passions are generally roused from great conflict.”

— Titus Livy

96. “By flying, men often rush into the midst of calamities.”

— Titus Livy

97. “No one wants to be excelled by his relatives.”

— Titus Livy

98. “Men are least safe from what success induces them not to fear.”

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99. “Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.”

— Titus Livy

100. “Greater is our terror of the unknown.”

— Titus Livy