Quotes by : Livy

Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.

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.

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

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.

...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....

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