Livy

Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.

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

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

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

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