133 Quotes by Livy

This was the Athenians' war against the King of Macedon, a war of words. Words are the only weapons the Athenians have left.

Once let good faith be abandoned, and all social existence would perish.

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

Envy, like fire, soars upward.

Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.

As soon as she (woman) begins to be ashamed of what she ought not, she will not be ashamed of what she ought.

The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty.

A woman's mind is affected by the meanest gifts.

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