History Quotes

Those who lived through the great moments reflect on what happened and why it still matters.

18227 quotes

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"Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat its errors."
Strabo
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"The persistence of memory shapes the course of history."
Strabo
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"History repeats itself for those who refuse to listen."
Petronius
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"History is written by survivors, not by those who were right."
Petronius
"We live in the footprints of our ancestors."
Diogenes Laërtius
"The past teaches us, the present defines us, the future awaits us."
Diogenes Laërtius
"History is the teacher of those who listen."
Diogenes Laërtius
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"A man without a past is a dangerous thing."
Juvenal
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"History does not repeat, but it often rhymes."
Juvenal
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"History repeats itself because humanity fails to learn from its errors."
Porphyry
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"History's tragic cycles break only when individuals cease repeating ancestral patterns."
Porphyry
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"The past is a teacher, not a prison."
Apuleius
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"History repeats itself to those who do not learn."
Apuleius
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"History teaches us lessons for tomorrow."
Martial
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"History repeats itself to those who ignore it."
Martial
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"History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time."
Ammianus Marcellinus
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"History repeats itself to those who ignore its lessons."
Ammianus Marcellinus
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"Every age leaves its mark upon the world."
Ammianus Marcellinus
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"History is a set of lies agreed upon."
Suetonius
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"History does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes."
Suetonius
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"Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it."
Suetonius
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"The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children."
Plutarch
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"History is a pattern of events occurring in succession and relative to one another."
Plutarch
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"Nations grow by virtue, decline by vice."
Tacitus
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"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
Tacitus
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"History is the mirror in which we see ourselves reflected."
Juvenal
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"The wise learn from history; the foolish repeat it."
Juvenal
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"History teaches that human nature changes very little."
Juvenal
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"The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful and virtuous."
Horace
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"History repeats itself to those who fail to learn from it."
Martial