Titus Livius Quotes

While they were deliberating in Rome, Saguntum was captured.

Envy like fire always makes for the highest points.

We can endure neither our vices nor the remedies for them.

No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.

Temerity is not always successful.

 

The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.

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

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

There are laws for peace as well as war.

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

Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.

Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.

They are more than men at the outset of their battles; at the end they are less than the women.

It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task.

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

He will have true glory who despises it.

Woe to the conquered.

Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.

Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.