“Let him follow his mind how, as discipline broke down bit by bit, morality at first foundered; how it next subsided in ever greater collapse and then began to topple headlong in ruin—until the advent of our own age, in which we can endure neither our vices nor the remedies needed to cure them.”
It really makes you wonder what Livy would think about our own modern era. Is this our curse?
“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
