Titus Livius Quotes
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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.
Titus Livius
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Author Details:
Type:
Historian Quotes
Category:
Roman Historian Quotes
Year of Birth:
59 BC
Year of Death:
17
Nationality:
Roman
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Select Titus Livius Quotations:
There are laws for peace as well as war.
Titus Livius
The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.
Titus Livius
Envy like fire always makes for the highest points.
Titus Livius
They are more than men at the outset of their battles; at the end they are less than the women.
Titus Livius
The sun has not yet set for all time.
Titus Livius
It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.
Titus Livius
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Quote Keywords:

Beneficial,
Convenience,
Every,
Law,
Majority,
Meet,
Must,
Possibly,
Satisfied,
Whole
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Beneficial,
Convenience,
Every,
Law,
Majority,
Meet,
Must,
Possibly,
Satisfied,
Whole
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All Titus Livius Quotations:
A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed...
All things will be clear and...
Envy like fire always makes for...
Favor and honor sometimes fall more...
Fortune blinds men when she does...
From abundance springs satiety.
He will have true glory who...
In difficult and desperate cases, the...
It is better that a guilty...
It is easier to criticize than...
It is easy at any moment...
Luck is of little moment to...
Many difficulties which nature throws in...
Men are only clever at shifting...
Men are slower to recognize blessings...
No crime can ever be defended...
No law can possibly meet the...
Nowhere are our calculations more frequently...
Resistance to criminal rashness comes better...
Rome has grown since its humble...
Temerity is not always successful.
The old Romans all wished to...
The populace is like the sea...
The result showed that fortune helps...
The sun has not yet set...
The troubles which have come upon...
There are laws for peace as...
There is always more spirit in...
There is nothing man will not...
There is nothing that is more...
There is nothing worse than being...
They are more than men at...
This above all makes history useful...
Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are...
Truth, they say, is but too...
Under the influence of fear, which...
We can endure neither our vices...
Woe to the conquered.
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