El sol no se ha puesto aún por última vez.
LivyIt is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.
LivyTags: schadenfreud
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
LivyThings turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
LivyWe can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
LivyThe 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.
LivyTags: inspirational
Tan difícil resulta la moderación en la defensa de la libertad: mientras se simula pretender la igualdad, cada uno se encumbra a sí mismo a costa de rebajar al otro, y mientras se busca evitar el temor, uno se convierte a sí mismo en temible, y la injusticia que rechazamos de nosotros mismos se la inflingimos a otros, como si no hubiera más alternativa que cometerla o padecerla.
Historia de Roma desde su fundación
Ningún favor produce una gratitud menos permanente que el don de la libertad, especialmente entre aquellos pueblos que están dispuestos a hacer mal uso de ella.
LivyWhen Numa died, Rome by the twin disciplines of peace and war was as eminent for self-mastery as for military power.
LivyTags: history religion political-science
Believing, as they now did, that the heavenly powers took part in human affairs, they became so much absorbed in the cultivation of religion and so deeply imbued with the sense of their religious duties, that the sanctity of an oath had more power to control their lives than the fear of punishment for lawbreaking.
LivyTags: history religion political-philosophy law political-science policy
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