Livy
Livy
Titus Livius—known as Livy /ˈlɪvi/ in English—was a Roman historian who wrote a monumental history of Rome and the Roman people – Ab Urbe Condita Libri– covering the period from the earliest legends of Rome before the traditional foundation in 753 BC through the reign of Augustus in Livy's own time. He was on familiar terms with the Julio-Claudian dynasty, advising Augustus's grandnephew, the future emperor Claudius, as a young man not long before 14 AD in a letter to...
NationalityRoman
ProfessionHistorian
war
War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
strong law limits
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.
flames envy soar
Envy, like flames, soars upwards.
rewards
Never is work without reward, or reward without work.
courage honorable wells
The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.
war upset irrationality
Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
peace war luck
Luck rules every human endeavor, especially war.
gentleman dignity
A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.
honor return luster
An honor prudently declined often returns with increased luster.
garden cities government
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.
should judged
Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.
eye doe
That business does not prosper which you transact with the eyes of others.
sloth prosperity
Prosperity engenders sloth.
peace war law
There are laws for peace as well as war.