Titus Livius Quotes

Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.

He will have true glory who despises it.

No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority.

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

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.

The more common report is that Remus mockingly jumped over the newly raised walls and was forthwith killed by the enraged Romulus, who exclaimed, "So shall it be henceforth with every one who leaps over my walls."

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

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.

No law is sufficiently convenient to all.

The result showed that fortune helps the brave.

No one wants to be excelled by his relatives.

Passions are generally roused from great conflict.

The sun has not yet set for all time.

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

Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.