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.
Sunday, February 20, 2011
The infinite variety of human experience
From Livy, The History of Rome in the preface to Book One
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