The lessons of history? There are four: The bee fertilizes the flower it robs; whom the gods would destroy they first make mad with power; the mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small; when it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Charles A. Beard
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Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.
Gustav Flaubert
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How many pens are broken, how many ink bottles consumed, to write about things that have never happened.
The Talmud
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The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians.
Margaret Thatcher
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
Leo Tolstoy
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History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded up peaceably.
Mark Twain
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A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
Edgar Watson Howe
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For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.
Miguel de Cervantes
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True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?
Vaclav Havel
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A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have often made a hero of the same man who by indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning, would have proved a coward.
Earl of Chesterfield
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France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.
Francois Mitterrand
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.
Matsuo Basho
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Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
Will Durant
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Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
Vicki Baum
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The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.
Walter Benjamin
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