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
„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
Context: 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...
Introduction to Ab urbe condita (trans. Aubrey de Sélincourt, 1960)
