Monday, December 7, 2015

Livy on the Study of History

"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 plaintly set out for all to see: and in that record you can find for yourself and your country both examples and warnings: fine things to take as models, base things, rotten through and through, to avoid." Titus Livy, The Early History of Rome