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Tite-Live , dit « Le Padouan », né en 59 av. J.-C. ou en 64 av. J.-C. et mort en 17 ap. J.-C. dans sa ville natale de Padoue , est un historien de la Rome antique, auteur de la monumentale œuvre de l'Histoire romaine . Wikipedia  

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“The sun has not yet set for all time.”

Book XXXIX, sec. 26
History of Rome

“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.”

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

“The result showed that fortune helps the brave.”

Book VIII, sec. 29
History of Rome

“For he considered that, in many cases, but especially in war, mere appearances have had all the effect of realities; and that a person, under a firm persuasion that he can command resources, virtually has them; that very prospect inspiring him with hope and boldness in his exertions.”

Book XXXIV, sec. 12 http://books.google.com/books?id=5f08AAAAYAAJ&q="For+he+considered+that+in+many+cases+but+especially+in+war+mere+appearances+have+had+all+the+effect+of+realities+and+that+a+person+under+a+firm+persuasion+that+he+can+command+resources+virtually+has+them+that+very+prospect+inspiring+him+with+hope+and+boldness+in+his+exertions"&pg=PA443#v=onepage
History of Rome

“There are laws for peace as well as war.”

Book V, sec. 27
History of Rome

“The more common report is that Remus mockingly jumped over the newly raised walls and was forthwith killed by the enraged Romulus, who exclaimed, "So shall it be henceforth with every one who leaps over my walls."”
Vulgatior fama est ludibrio fratris Remum novos transiluisse muros; inde ab irato Romulo, cum verbis quoque increpitans adiecisset 'sic deinde, quicumque alius transiliet moenia mea', interfectum.

Book I, sec. 7
History of Rome

“He will have true glory who despises it.”

Book XXII, sec. 39
History of Rome

“Greater is our terror of the unknown.”

Book XXVIII, sec. 44
History of Rome

“The best known evil is the most tolerable.”
Notissimum [...] malum maxime tolerabile

Book XXIII, sec. 3
History of Rome
Variante: Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.

“He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune’s breeze is favorable, or cast down when it is adverse.”
Is demum vir erit, cuius animum neque prosperae res flatu suo efferent nec adversae infringent

Book XLV, sec. 8
History of Rome

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