The office of the historian is to judge actions, and to teac... - Giambattista Vico

"The office of the historian is to judge actions, and to teach lessons to posterity."

Giambattista Vico History

Philosopher Historian Philologist Italian 1668–1744

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"Verum esse ipsum factum"

"The world is governed by the imagination"

"History is the science of what has been"

"Men are so made that they cannot occupy themselves with the most important things without intermixing with them a certain frivolity"

"I've seen a lot of things in my time."

"That's how we archaeologists tell time."

"We must learn from history or be doomed to repeat it."

"Every artifact tells a story."