Quotes by Livy

“Fear looks always on the darker side...”

“...we can endure neither our vices nor the remedies needed to cure them.”

“Now I would solicit the particular attention of those numerous people who imagine that money is everything in this world, and that rank and ability are inseparable from wealth: let them observe tha...”

“The political reputation of Servius rests upon his organization of society according to a fixed scale of rank and fortune. He originated the census, a measure of the highest utility to a state dest...”

“Believing, as they now did, that the heavenly powers took part in human affairs, they became so much absorbed in the cultivation of religion and so deeply imbued with the sense of their religious d...”

“Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.”

“This above all makes history useful and desirable it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.”

“Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.”

“The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.”

“At last he was to feel that he had the town, as it were, in his pocket, and was ready for anything. Accordingly he sent a confidential messenger to Rome, to ask his father what step he should next ...”

“In difficult situations when hope seems feeble the boldest plans are safest.”

“Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.”

“A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.”

“Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.”

“Better late than never.”

“Treachery though at first very cautious in the end betrays itself.”

“We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.”

“In difficult situations when hope seems feeble the boldest plans are safest.”

“Treachery though at first very cautious in the end betrays itself.”