Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies resources, and minimized their own. – Titus Livius
The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom. – Titus Livius
Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence. – Titus Livius
The rules of punctuation seem arbitrary. How can they not, when an apostrophe looks like nothing in this world so much as a comma that can’t keep its feet on the ground? Or when, by simply placing next to that wafting comma its twin, one creates (of all things) a quotation mark? – Richard Lederer and John Shore, Comma Sense: A Fun-damental Guide to Punctuation