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„Je pošetilostí věřit, že válku je možno vybojovat rokováním nebo modlitbami.“
Stultitia est sedendo aut votis debellari credere posse
„Nejhorší stud je stud za šetrnost či chudobu.“
PESSIMUS QUIDEM PUDOR EST VEL PARSIMONIAE VEL PAUPERTATIS
„Lepší pozdě než nikdy.“
POTIUS SERO QUAM NUMQUAM
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Titus Livius: Citáty anglicky
“The sun has not yet set for all time.”
Book XXXIX, sec. 26
History of Rome
Book XXII, sec. 39
History of Rome
Introduction to Ab urbe condita (trans. Aubrey de Sélincourt, 1960)
Kontext: The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see; and in that record you can find for yourself and your country both examples and warnings; fine things to take as models, base things, rotten through and through, to avoid.
I hope my passion for Rome's past has not impaired my judgement, for I do honestly believe that no country has ever been greater or purer than ours or richer in good citizens and noble deeds...
“Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.”
Book XXX, sec. 30
History of Rome
“Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.”
Book II, sec. 47
History of Rome
“The result showed that fortune helps the brave.”
Book VIII, sec. 29
History of Rome
Book XXXIV, sec. 12 http://books.google.com/books?id=5f08AAAAYAAJ&q=&quot;For+he+considered+that+in+many+cases+but+especially+in+war+mere+appearances+have+had+all+the+effect+of+realities+and+that+a+person+under+a+firm+persuasion+that+he+can+command+resources+virtually+has+them+that+very+prospect+inspiring+him+with+hope+and+boldness+in+his+exertions&quot;&pg=PA443#v=onepage <br class="br">History of Rome
“There are laws for peace as well as war.”
Book V, sec. 27
History of Rome
“Men are only too clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.”
Book XXVIII, sec. 25
History of Rome
“Men are slower to recognise blessings than misfortunes.”
Book XXX, sec. 21
History of Rome
“The more common report is that Remus mockingly jumped over the newly raised walls and was forthwith killed by the enraged Romulus, who exclaimed, "So shall it be henceforth with every one who leaps over my walls."”
Vulgatior fama est ludibrio fratris Remum novos transiluisse muros; inde ab irato Romulo, cum verbis quoque increpitans adiecisset 'sic deinde, quicumque alius transiliet moenia mea', interfectum.
Book I, sec. 7
History of Rome
“It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.”
Book XXX, sec. 30
History of Rome
Book XLIV, sec. 15
History of Rome
“There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.”
Book XXXIX, sec. 16
History of Rome
“He will have true glory who despises it.”
Book XXII, sec. 39
History of Rome
“Greater is our terror of the unknown.”
Book XXVIII, sec. 44
History of Rome
Book XXVIII, sec. 27
History of Rome
“The best known evil is the most tolerable.”
Notissimum [...] malum maxime tolerabile
Book XXIII, sec. 3
History of Rome
Varianta: Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
“Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.”
Book XXII, sec. 39
History of Rome
“In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.”
Book XXV, sec. 38
History of Rome
“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.”
Is demum vir erit, cuius animum neque prosperae res flatu suo efferent nec adversae infringent
Book XLV, sec. 8
History of Rome
