Historian quotes

Ancient wisdom

Titus Livius quote: “The old Romans all wished to have…”

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Arthur Helps

Arthur Helps quote: “The man of the house can destroy…”

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Arnold J. Toynbee

Arnold J. Toynbee quote: “The immense cities lie basking on the…”

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Arnold J. Toynbee

Arnold J. Toynbee quote: “The human race’s prospects of survival were…”

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Arthur Helps

Arthur Helps quote: “The greatest luxury of riches is that…”

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Barbara Tuchman

Barbara Tuchman quote: “The fleet sailed to its war base…”

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Arnold J. Toynbee

Arnold J. Toynbee quote: “The equation of religion with belief is…”

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Arnold J. Toynbee

Arnold J. Toynbee quote: “The extinction of race consciousness as between…”

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Edward Gibbon

Edward Gibbon quote: “The end comes when we no longer…”

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Edward Gibbon

Edward Gibbon quote: “The courage of a soldier is found…”

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Edward Gibbon

Edward Gibbon quote: “The author himself is the best judge…”

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Edward Gibbon

Edward Gibbon quote: “Style is the image of character…”

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Arthur Helps

Arthur Helps quote: “Strength is born in the deep silence…”

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Arnold J. Toynbee

Arnold J. Toynbee quote: “Sooner or later, man has always had…”

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Arthur Helps

Arthur Helps quote: “Routine is not organization, any more than…”

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Ancient wisdom

Titus Livius quote: “Rome has grown since its humble beginnings…”

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Edward Gibbon

Edward Gibbon quote: “Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive…”

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Ancient wisdom

Titus Livius quote: “Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late…”

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Barbara Tuchman

Barbara Tuchman quote: “Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey;…”

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Edward Gibbon

Edward Gibbon quote: “Our sympathy is cold to the relation…”

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Edward Gibbon

Edward Gibbon quote: “Our work is the presentation of our…”

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Arnold J. Toynbee

Arnold J. Toynbee quote: “Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared…”

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Edward Gibbon

Edward Gibbon quote: “Of the various forms of government which…”

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Ancient wisdom

Titus Livius quote: “Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset…”

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Barbara Tuchman

Barbara Tuchman quote: “Nothing sickens me more than the closed…”

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Barbara Tuchman

Barbara Tuchman quote: “Nothing so comforts the military mind as…”

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Barbara Tuchman

Barbara Tuchman quote: “No more distressing moment can ever face…”

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Ancient wisdom

Titus Livius quote: “No law can possibly meet the convenience…”

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Ancient wisdom

Titus Livius quote: “No crime can ever be defended on…”

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Edward Gibbon

Edward Gibbon quote: “My early and invincible love of reading…”

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