Sunday, February 20, 2011

The infinite variety of human experience

From Livy, The History of Rome in the preface to Book One
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.

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