Titus Livius

There are laws for peace as well as war.

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

No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.

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

Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.

The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see; and in that record you can find for yourself and your country both examples and warnings; fine things to take as models, base things, rotten through and through, to avoid.
I hope my passion for Rome's past has not impaired my judgement, for I do honestly believe that no country has ever been greater or purer than ours or richer in good citizens and noble deeds...

The Aitolians, the Akarnanians, the Macedonians, men of the same speech, are united or disunited by trivial causes that arise from time to time; with aliens, with barbarians, all Greeks wage and will wage eternal war; for they are enemies by the will of nature, which is eternal, and not from reasons that change from day to day...

A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.

The populace is like the sea, motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.

Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.

He was always before men’s eyes; a course of action which, by increasing our familiarity with great men, diminishes our respect for them.

There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.

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

Potius sero quam nunquam.

Good fortune and a good disposition are rarely given to the same man.