- A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.
- Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.
- Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.
- Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.
- Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
- Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes.
- Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.
TITUS LIVIUS
