Complete Works of Livy Quotes

“Livy seems never to have held any public office, but to have given himself up entirely to literature. Seneca says that he wrote dialogues which one might classify under history as well as under philosophy, besides books which were professedly philosophical.”
― Livy, Complete Works of Livy

“So difficult is it to be moderate in the defence of liberty, since everyone, while pretending to seek fair-play, so raises himself as to press another down; while insuring themselves against fear, men actually render themselves fearful to others; and having defended ourselves from an injury, we proceed — as though it were necessary either to do or suffer wrong — to inflict injury upon our neighbour.”
― Livy, Complete Works of Livy