Don't brood on what's past, but never forget it either.

Don't brood on what's past, but never forget it either.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will read more

Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.

The lessons of history? There are four: The bee fertilizes the flower it robs; whom the gods would destroy they read more

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.

A land without ruins is a land without memories--a land without memories is a land without history.

A land without ruins is a land without memories--a land without memories is a land without history.

Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one read more

Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?

Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.

Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.

History: A distillation of rumor.

History: A distillation of rumor.