Tito Lívio: Frasi in inglese (pagina 3)

“It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task.”

“The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.”

“From abundance springs satiety.”

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

“The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.”

“We can endure neither our vices nor the remedies for them.”
Nec vitia nostra nec remedia pati possumus

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

“They are more than men at the outset of their battles; at the end they are less than the women.”

“Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.”

“No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.”

“The state is suffering from two opposite vices, avarice and luxury; two plagues which, in the past, have been the ruin of every great empire.”

“No law is sufficiently convenient to all.”

“He would not anticipate those counsels which are rather bestowed by circumstances on men, than by men on circumstances.”

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

“The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.”

“Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.”

“We do not learn this only from the event, which is the master of fools.”

“The name of freedom regained is sweet to hear.”

“There is always more spirit in attack than in defense.”