Livy

"The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success."

"Nothing is so unbelievable that old history cannot show it to be true."

"Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men."

"The greatest wealth is health."

"Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent management."

"Everybody agrees that no one thing is more important to man's wellbeing than good health, yet men behave as though nothing were less important."

"The mind that is wise is not the one that doubts, but the one that questions."

"No one can live happily who looks only to himself and turns everything to his own advantage."

"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the acts which provoke it."

"Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely mindful of what follows."

"The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights."

"Fear is the parent of cruelty."

"It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own."

"The greatest difficulty of all is at first to begin."

"There is nothing that cannot be achieved by firm determination and hard work."

"Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things."

"Fortune favors the bold, but abandons the timid."

"True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice of them."

"The mind that is wise is not the one that doubts all things, but the one that carefully investigates the truth."

"Patience is the companion of wisdom."

"What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace."

"Freedom is the greatest treasure."

"Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army."

"The greatest of all powers is often simple patience."

"Men are not born: they are made."

"It is a bad thing to stumble twice over the same stone."

"Belief in immortality was invented by people who were afraid to die."

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

"The fall of one man is a lesson to another."

"What is the cause of our failure? Is it that we do not have the capacity?"