Titus Livius (59 BC-17) quotes

• A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.
• Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.
• In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
• It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
• Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by exercise of intelligence.
• Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
• There is nothing a man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.