Top 100 Titus Livy Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The study of History is the best medicine for a sick mind.”

— Titus Livy

2. “Persevere in virtue and diligence.”

— Titus Livy

3. “Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.”

— Titus Livy

4. “We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.”

— Titus Livy

5. “Luck rules every human endeavor, especially war.”

— Titus Livy

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

— Titus Livy

7. “It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.”

— Titus Livy

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

— Titus Livy

9. “A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.”

— Titus Livy

10. “Woe to the conquered.”

— Titus Livy

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

— Titus Livy

12. “Never is work without reward, or reward without work.”

— Titus Livy

13. “The sun has not yet set for all time.”

— Titus Livy

14. “Envy is blind. -Caeca invidia est.”

— Titus Livy

15. “Wit is the flower of the imagination.”

— Titus Livy

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

— Titus Livy

17. “No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority.”

— Titus Livy

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

— Titus Livy

19. “War is just to those to whom war is necessary.”

— Titus Livy

20. “From abundance springs satiety.”

— Titus Livy

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

— Titus Livy

22. “When Tarquin the Proud was asked what was the best mode of governing a conquered city, he replied only by beating down with his staff all the tallest poppies in his garden.”

— Titus Livy

23. “The best known evil is the most tolerable.”

— Titus Livy

24. “Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.”

— Titus Livy

25. “We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.”

— Titus Livy

26. “The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself – something that’s in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered.”

— Titus Livy

27. “Necessity is the last and strongest weapon.”

— Titus Livy

28. “In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.”

— Titus Livy

29. “Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.”

— Titus Livy

30. “The mind sins, not the body; if there is no intention, there is no blame.”

— Titus Livy

31. “Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.”

— Titus Livy

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

— Titus Livy

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

— Titus Livy

34. “Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.”

— Titus Livy

35. “A person under the firm persuasion that he can command resources virtually has them.”

— Titus Livy

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

— Titus Livy

37. “Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.”

— Titus Livy

38. “Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.”

— Titus Livy

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

— Titus Livy

40. “Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.”

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

— Titus Livy

42. “The less there is of fear, the less there is of danger.”

— Titus Livy

43. “Haste is blind and improvident.”

— Titus Livy

44. “Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.”

— Titus Livy

45. “No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.”

— Titus Livy

46. “Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.”

— Titus Livy

47. “In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.”

— Titus Livy

48. “Law is a thing which is insensible, and inexorable, more beneficial and more profitious to the weak than to the strong; it admits of no mitigation nor pardon, once you have overstepped its limits.”

— Titus Livy

49. “A woman’s mind is affected by the meanest gifts.”

— Titus Livy

50. “The name of freedom regained is sweet to hear.”

— Titus Livy