Escritas - Livy

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Bio

Titus Livius Patavinus —known as Livy in English—was a Roman historian who wrote a monumental history of Rome and the Roman people.

Poems List

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Men?s minds are generally ingenious

Men?s minds are generally ingenious in palliating guilt in themselves.

All such distinctions as tend

All such distinctions as tend to set the orders of the state at a distance from each other are equally subversive of liberty and concord.

Children form a bond of

Children form a bond of union than which the human heart finds none more enduring.

Toil and pleasure, in their

Toil and pleasure, in their natures opposite, are yet linked together in a kind of necessary connection.

Being continually in people?s sight,

Being continually in people?s sight, by the satiety which it creates, diminishes the reverence felt for great characters.

Assume in adversity a countenance

Assume in adversity a countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate thy temper.