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.....

Fear looks always on the darker side...

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

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

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

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

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....

Now I would solicit the particular attention of those numerous people who imagine that money is everything....