Titus Livius Quotes

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

Envy like fire always makes for the highest points.

Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.

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...

He will have true glory who despises it.

It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.

Such is the nature of crowds: either they are humble and servile or arrogant and dominating. They are incapable of making moderate use of freedom, which is the middle course, or of keeping it.

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

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

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

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

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.

Potius sero quam nunquam.

Such impetuous schemes and boldness are at first sight alluring, but are difficult to handle, and in the result disastrous.

Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies’ resources, and minimized their own.