Any crowd is like a sea: a breeze and a hurricane can set it in motion.
Any crime is without premeditation.
Hannibal is at the gates!
Hannibal, you know how to get victory, but you don't know how to use it.
Where there is no intention, there is no fault.
Everything added at the end always seems important.
If you have begun boldly, so should you continue, for sometimes boldness turns into prudence at last.
Trust begets trust.
Long experience is the only supervisor of laws.
A state cannot long exist in peace, and if it has not an enemy without, it will find one within: though strong men seem to have no one to fear, their own strength embarrasses them.
Peace achieved is better and more lasting than an expected victory.
Friendship should be immortal and enmity perishable.
If you take your time, everything will be clear and lasting; haste is reckless and blind.
If you have something to do, you have to decide to do it.
In finishing the narrative of the Punic war, I feel such a relief as if I myself had taken part in its hardships and dangers.
Laws given in time of peace are largely annulled by war, and laws given in time of war annul their peace.
There was no one left among the enemies who could announce the defeat.
The truth may sometimes be stifled, but it is never extinguished.
The denouement of things is the teacher of the mindless.
The outcome of big things often depends on small things.
Just as a sick man endures a light illness more difficult than a healthy man endures a grievous illness, so a sick state does not endure any misfortune, and not because it is grievous, but because the state has not the power to lift this weight.
As often happens, the "big" side came out victorious over the "good" side.
The easiest to bear is a known evil.
A man is called only the one whom the wind blowing from one side does not divert him from the way, and the one blowing from the front does not bend him.
Better eternal peace than dreams of victory.
Better late to oppose impudence and folly than never.
Better late than never.
People are more receptive to the good than to the bad
People scare others so they won't be scared themselves.
People are great orators when they justify themselves.