Titus Livius Quotes

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.

It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.

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

Notissimum [...] malum maxime tolerabile

He will have true glory who despises it.

There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.

Nature has ordained that the man who is pleading his own cause before a large audience, will be more readily listened to than he who has no object in view other than the public benefit.

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

They lived under a just and moderate government, and they admitted that one bond of their fidelity was that their rulers were the better men.

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

I shall find antiquity a rewarding study, if only because, while I am absorbed in it, I shall be able to turn my eyes from the troubles which for so long have tormented the modern world.

The name of freedom regained is sweet to hear.

Nec vitia nostra nec remedia pati possumus

Greater is our terror of the unknown.

I approach these questions unwillingly, as it wounds, but no cure can be effected without touching upon and handling them.