Quotations From TITUS LIVIUS (LIVY)

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• 1.

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

  Titus Livius (Livy) (59 B.C.-A.D. 17), Roman historian. Histories, XXXIV, 4.
• 2.

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

  Titus Livius (Livy) (59 B.C.-A.D. 17), Roman historian. Histories, X, 28.
  
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• 3.

  The populace is like the sea, motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.

  Titus Livius (Livy) (59 B.C.-A.D. 17), Roman historian. Histories, XXVIII, 27.
  
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• 4.

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

  Titus Livius (Livy) (59 B.C.-A.D. 17), Roman historian. Histories, V, 37.
• 5.

  Temerity is not always successful.

  Titus Livius (Livy) (59 B.C.-A.D. 17), Roman historian. Histories, XXVIII, 42.
• 6.

  He would not anticipate those counsels which are rather bestowed by circumstances on men, than by men on circumstances.

  Titus Livius (Livy) (59 B.C.-A.D. 17), Roman historian. Histories, XXII, 38.
• 7.

  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.

  Titus Livius (Livy) (59 B.C.-A.D. 17), Roman historian. Histories, XXII, 83.
• 8.

  The result showed that fortune helps the brave.

  Titus Livius (Livy) (59 B.C.-A.D. 17), Roman historian. Histories, VIII, 29.
• 9.

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

  Titus Livius (Livy) (59 B.C.-A.D. 17), Roman historian. Histories, Praefatio, 4.
• 10.

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

  Titus Livius (Livy) (59 B.C.-A.D. 17), Roman historian. Histories, XXII, 39.
  
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