The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see; and in that record you can find yourself and your country both examples and warnings; fine things to take as models, base things rotten through and through, to avoid.
Bad beginnings, bad endings. - Livy
Bad beginnings, bad endings.
- Livy
We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort. - Livy
We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself. - Livy
A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.
In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest. - Livy
In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.
Never is work without reward, or reward without work. - Livy
Never is work without reward, or reward without work.
The mind sins, not the body; if there is no intention, there is no blame. - Livy
The mind sins, not the body; if there is no intention, there is no blame.
Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time. - Livy
Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.
All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident. - Livy
All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.
Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished. - Livy
Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.
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