Livy Quotes

Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.

A woman's mind is affected by the meanest gifts.

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

Toil and pleasure, in their natures opposite, are yet linked together in a kind of necessary connection.

...war is just to those for whom it is necessary, and arms are clear of impiety for those who have no hope left but in arms.

This was the Athenians' war against the King of Macedon, a war of words. Words are the only weapons the Athenians have left.

Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.

The name of freedom regained is sweet to hear.

Men are least safe from what success induces them not to fear.

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

Envy is blind. -Caeca invidia est

Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.

False shame only is harmful.

Nothing stings us so bitterly as the loss of money

By flying, men often rush into the midst of calamities.

Once let good faith be abandoned, and all social existence would perish.

...we can endure neither our vices nor the remedies needed to cure them.

In difficult situations when hope seems feeble the boldest plans are safest.

Treachery though at first very cautious in the end betrays itself.

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