About Livy:
Titus Livius Patavinus 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 take up the writing of history. Livy and Augustus's wife, Livia, were from the same clan in different locations, although not related by blood.[citation needed]
It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.
LivyAll things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.
LivyThe troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.
Livy