Titus Livius Quotes

No law is sufficiently convenient to all.

Notissimum [...] malum maxime tolerabile

Greater is our terror of the unknown.

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

Aetolos Acarnanas Macedonas, eiusdem linguae homines, leues ad tempus ortae causae diiungunt coniunguntque: cum alienigenis, cum barbaris aeternum omnibus Graecis bellum est eritque; natura enim, quae perpetua est, non mutabilibus in diem causis hostes sunt...

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

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."

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.

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.

All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.

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.

Is demum vir erit, cuius animum neque prosperae res flatu suo efferent nec adversae infringent

The state is suffering from two opposite vices, avarice and luxury; two plagues which, in the past, have been the ruin of every great empire.

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.

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