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History Quotes

"The more you know about the past, the better prepared you are for the future."

"To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty."

"The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history."

"History is an account mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools"

"To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days."

"Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him."

"History is something that very few people have been doing while everyone else was ploughing fields and carrying water buckets"

"We study history not to know the future but to widen our horizons, to understand that our present situation is neither natural nor eternal, and that we consequently have many more possibilities before us than we imagine"

"Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done."

"The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different."

"I'm the most brutal and ruthless conqueror that ever lived"

"Behind every great fortune lies a great crime"

"The only historian capable of fanning the spark of hope"

"World history is not the ground of happiness. The periods of happiness are the blank pages of history."

"From the written word to sailing vessels, technology increases interconnectedness, helping to boost its own flow and spread. Each wave hence lays the groundwork for successive waves"

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