Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted
with an eye and a soul.

Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted
with an eye and a soul.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions read more

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

The causes of events are ever more interresting than the events themselves.

The causes of events are ever more interresting than the events themselves.

History is just a portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.

History is just a portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.

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.

Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.

Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?

True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?