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History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, read more
History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded up peaceably.
What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.
What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.
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.
Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
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?
A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have often made a hero of the same man read more
A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have often made a hero of the same man who by indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning, would have proved a coward.
France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed read more
France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.
History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.
History is a confused heap of facts.
History is a confused heap of facts.
