Titus Livius Quotes

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

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...

The name of freedom regained is sweet to hear.

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

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.

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

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

In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.

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

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

No law is sufficiently convenient to all.

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

You know how to vanquish, Hannibal, but you do not know how to profit from victory.