Prosperity engenders sloth. Livy More Quotes by Livy More Quotes From Livy Passions are generally roused from great conflict. Livy conflict passion All such distinctions as tend to set the orders of the state at a distance from each other are equally subversive of liberty and concord. Livy Assume in adversity a countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate thy temper. Livy Being continually in people?s sight, by the satiety which it creates, diminishes the reverence felt for great characters. Livy Children form a bond of union than which the human heart finds none more enduring. Livy Men?s minds are generally ingenious in palliating guilt in themselves. Livy They are more than men at the outset of their battles; at the end they are less than the women. Livy battles end women men We can endure neither our vices nor the remedies for them. Livy them our endure vices Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes. Livy recognize than blessings men