Livy Quotes

Bad beginnings, bad endings.

It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult and arduous

Valor is the soldier's adornment.

Adversity reminds men of religion.

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

No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.

We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.

Nothing hurts worse than the loss of money.

No law is sufficiently convenient to all.

The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.

Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.

Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.

Woe to the conquered.

Haste is blind and improvident.

There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.

The best known evil is the most tolerable.

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

No one wants to be excelled by his relatives.

Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.

No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level.

It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.

The less there is of fear, the less there is of danger.

No law is quite appropriate for all.

From abundance springs satiety.

The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty.

A certain peace is better and safer than a victory in prospect; the former is at your own disposal, the latter depends upon the gods.

Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.

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

He will have true glory who despises it.

Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.

The sun has not yet set for all time.

Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.

No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.

The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.

Law is a thing which is insensible, and inexorable, more beneficial and more profitious to the weak than to the strong; it admits of no mitigation nor pardon, once you have overstepped its limits.

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

Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely dread.

As soon as she (woman) begins to be ashamed of what she ought not, she will not be ashamed of what she ought.

You know how to vanquish, Hannibal, but you do not know how to profit from victory.

Envy is blind, and she has no other quality than that of detracting from virtue

Better and safer is an assured peace than a victory hoped for. The one is in your own power, the other is in the hands of the gods.

The study of History is the best medicine for a sick mind.

There are laws for peace as well as war.

We feel public misfortunes just so far as they affect our private circumstances, and nothing of this nature appeals more directly to us than the loss of money.

Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.

Temerity is not always successful.

That business does not prosper which you transact with the eyes of others.

War is just to those to whom war is necessary.

Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.

Passions are generally roused from great conflict.