"Of all histories I think Tacitus simply the best; Livy is very good; Thucydides above any of the writers of Greek matters."
— Thucydides

January 1, 1970

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Francis Bacon, Advice to Fulke Greville on his studies, quoted in The Oxford Authors: Francis Bacon, ed. Brian Vickers (1996), p. 105