What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.

What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.

As lousy as things are now, tomorrow they will be somebody's good old days.

As lousy as things are now, tomorrow they will be somebody's good old days.

Men after death are understood worse than men of the present, but heard better.

Men after death are understood worse than men of the present, but heard better.

The contact with manners then is education; and this Thucydides
appears to assert when he says history is philosophy read more

The contact with manners then is education; and this Thucydides
appears to assert when he says history is philosophy learned from
examples.

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it and wiser than the one read more

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it and wiser than the one that comes after it.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the read more

History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.

History repeats itself; historians repeat each other.

History repeats itself; historians repeat each other.