Voltaire Quotes, History Quotes, Historical Quotes

All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon

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The goal of female education must invariably be the future mother.

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All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune-make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.

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In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.

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The greatest man in history was the poorest.

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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

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There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm.

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Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.

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History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.

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I don't employ Talleyrand when I want a thing done, but only when I want to have the appearance of wanting to do it.

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The struggle of today is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.

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History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought.

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I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored.

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History is written by the winners.

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It's a great historical joke that when the Spanish met the Aztecs, it was a blind date made in serve-you-right heaven. At the time, they were the two most unpleasant cultures in the entire world, and richly deserved each other. Still, the story of how stout Cortes blustered, bullied and bludgeoned his way to collapsing an entire empire with a handful of contagious hoodlums is astonishing.

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Tags : A. A. Gill Quotes , Two Quotes , History Quotes

The East is marvellously interesting for tracing our steps back. But for going forward, it is nothing. All it can hope for is to be fertilised by Europe, so that it can start on a new phase.

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Through searching out origins, one becomes a crab. The historian looks backwards, and finally he also believes backwards.

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