In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires. Livy More Quotes by Livy More Quotes From Livy All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident. Livy haste doe men Valor is the soldier's adornment. Livy valor military soldier It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted. Livy trusted trust fortune We can endure neither our vices nor their cure. Livy endure cures vices Haste is blind and improvident. Livy blindness haste blind Greater is our terror of the unknown. Livy terror greater Wit is the flower of the imagination. Livy wit flower imagination There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards. Livy rewards men promise We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort. Livy adversity comfort ease This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions. Livy records eye action No law is sufficiently convenient to all. Livy convenient law Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind. Livy dignity mankind matter The sun has not yet set for all time. Livy all-time sun Nothing hurts worse than the loss of money. Livy hurt loss When Tarquin the Proud was asked what was the best mode of governing a conquered city, he replied only by beating down with his staff all the tallest poppies in his garden. Livy garden government cities The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon Livy honorable wells courage The army from Asia introduced a foreign luxury to Rome; it was then the meals began to require more dishes and more expenditure . . . the cook, who had up to that time been employed as a slave of low price, become dear: what had been nothing but a metier was elevated to an art. Livy army food art Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed. Livy difficulty Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves. Livy betrayal trust integrity No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason. Livy wickedness reason
