Quotes by : Livy

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

We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.

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

Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.

Believing, as they now did, that the heavenly powers took part in human affairs, they became so much....

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

At last he was to feel that he had the town, as it were, in his pocket, and was ready for anything. Accordingly....

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

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

The political reputation of Servius rests upon his organization of society according to a fixed scale....