The historian who forgets the cycle of rise and fall is doom... - Empedocles

"The historian who forgets the cycle of rise and fall is doomed to misunderstand the present."

Empedocles History

Philosopher Ancient Greece 494–434

More from Empedocles

"I am not a mortal being"

"Love all equally, and hate all equally"

"Ashes to ashes, dust to dust"

"In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught"

"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."