Frases de Tito Lívio
Tito Lívio
Data de nascimento: 59 a.C.
Data de falecimento: 17 d.C.
Outros nomes: Livius
Tito Lívio , conhecido simplesmente como Lívio, é o autor da obra histórica intitulada Ab urbe condita , onde tenta relatar a história de Roma desde o momento tradicional da sua fundação 753 a.C. até ao início do século I da Era Cristã, mencionando desde os reis de Roma, tanto os primeiros como os Tarquínios.
Citações Tito Lívio
„Uma paz certa é melhor e mais segura do que uma vitória esperada.“
Fonte: "História de Roma" (Aníbal: XXX, 30)
„All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.“
— Livy
Book XXII, sec. 39
History of Rome
„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 for yourself and your country both examples and warnings; fine things to take as models, base things, rotten through and through, to avoid.“
— Livy
Introduction to Ab urbe condita (trans. Aubrey de Sélincourt, 1960)
Contexto: 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 for yourself and your country both examples and warnings; fine things to take as models, base things, rotten through and through, to avoid.
I hope my passion for Rome's past has not impaired my judgement, for I do honestly believe that no country has ever been greater or purer than ours or richer in good citizens and noble deeds...
„Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.“
— Livy
Book IV, sec. 57
History of Rome
„There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.“
— Livy
Book XXXIX, sec. 16
History of Rome
