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"This above all makes history useful and desirable: it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions."
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"Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts."
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Titus Livius, known in English as Livy, was a Roman historian. He wrote a monumental history of Rome and the Roman people, titled Ab Urbe Condita, ''From the Founding of the City'', covering the period from the earliest legends of Rome before the traditional founding in 753 BC through the reign of Augustus in Livy's own lifetime. He was on good terms with members of the Julio-Claudian dynasty and
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