"More and more, I tend to read history. I often find it more up to date than the daily newspapers."
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"We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic."
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"The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites."
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"We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed."
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"What if this present were the world's last night?"
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"Fiction is history, human history, or it is nothing."
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"History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable."
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"It's rare that we actively and consciously 'forget'; most of the time we have simply forgotten, with no consciousness of having forgotten. In individuals, the phenomenon is called 'denial'; in entire cultures and nations, it's usually called 'history."
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"The history of humanity is not the history of its wars, but the history of its households."
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"Now is history as fast as the mind remembers."
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"Which would you rather be, a conqueror in the Olympic games, or the crier that proclaims who are conquerors?"
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"I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention."
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"The only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe."
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"History is in a manner a sacred thing, so far as it contains truth; for where truth is, the supreme Father of it may also be said to be, at least, inasmuch as concerns truth."
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"The reign of imagagology begins where history ends."
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"It is beyond a doubt that during the sixteenth century, and the years immediately preceding and following it, poisoning had been brought to a pitch of perfection which remains unknown to modern chemistry, but which is indisputably proved by history. Italy, the cradle of modern science, was at that time, the inventor and mistress of these secrets, many of which are lost."
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"There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances."
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"There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances."
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"History! Read it and weep!"
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"Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly. Ludwig Wittgenstein"
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