Quotes by : Livy

Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.

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....

Fear looks always on the darker side...

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....

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

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