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For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause read more
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.
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.
History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and read more
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.
History is a confused heap of facts.
History is a confused heap of facts.
Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.
Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.
Every historian discloses a new horizon.
Every historian discloses a new horizon.
What is a society without a heroic dimension?
What is a society without a heroic dimension?
