Livy Quotes - Page 2

No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level.

No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.

Better late than never.

Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.

The army from Asia introduced a foreign luxury to Rome; it was then the meals began to require more dishes and more expenditure . . . the cook, who had up to that time been employed as a slave of low price, become dear: what had been nothing but a metier was elevated to an art.

The sun has not yet set for all time.

Great contests generally excite great animosities.

Prosperity engenders sloth.

That business does not prosper which you transact with the eyes of others.

He will have true glory who despises it.

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.

We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.

Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.

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

Such is the nature of crowds: either they are humble and servile or arrogant and dominating. They are incapable of making moderate use of freedom, which is the middle course, or of keeping it.

Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.

No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.

No law is sufficiently convenient to all.

Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.

There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.

Nothing hurts worse than the loss of money.

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

The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.

A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.

No one wants to be excelled by his relatives.