Titus Livy

In difficult and hopeless situations the boldest plans are the safest.

In difficult and hopeless situations the boldest plans are the safest.

Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays
itself.
[Lat., Ipsa se fraus, etiamsi initio cautior read more

Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays
itself.
[Lat., Ipsa se fraus, etiamsi initio cautior fuerit, detegit.]

Men's plans should be regulated by the circumstances, not
circumstances by the plans.
[Lat., Consilia res magis dant read more

Men's plans should be regulated by the circumstances, not
circumstances by the plans.
[Lat., Consilia res magis dant hominibus quam homines rebus.]

We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.

We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.

Men's minds are too ingenious in palliating guilt in themselves.
[Lat., Ingenia humana sunt ad suam cuique levandam culpam read more

Men's minds are too ingenious in palliating guilt in themselves.
[Lat., Ingenia humana sunt ad suam cuique levandam culpam nimio
plus facunda.]