History Quotes

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

18227 quotes

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"To understand history is to understand the cyclical nature of power."
Diocletian
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"History will judge us by our deeds, not our words"
Trajan
S
"To understand history is to understand that we are but actors in a play already written."
Septimius Severus
S
"A people without memory is a people without future."
Septimius Severus
C
"History judges not the battles we win, but the peace we establish."
Constantine I
C
"To be remembered is to have changed the course of history."
Constantine I
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"History judges not our intentions, but our lasting works."
Hadrian
H
"To understand the past is to predict the future."
Hadrian
D
"The past cannot be changed, but it can be rewritten."
Domitian
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"Rome was not built in a day, nor can it fall in one."
Domitian
D
"History will judge me kindly because history is written by survivors."
Domitian
C
"My legacy will be written in the sand of the amphitheater."
Commodus
C
"The study of history is the study of power in motion."
Commodus
"History judges us not by our victories, but by our virtues."
Vespasian
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"To preserve the past is to understand the future."
Hadrian
T
"History judges not the length of one's reign, but the wisdom of one's deeds."
Trajan
A
"History teaches us that empires fall not from external force, but from internal decay."
Antoninus Pius
A
"The lessons of history are written in blood and suffering."
Antoninus Pius
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"What is remembered of a ruler is not his mercy, but his legacy."
Domitian
D
"The historian writes of the victor; the truth dies with the vanquished."
Domitian
D
"What men remember is not the reign, but the reckoning."
Domitian
C
"The past exists only to be surpassed by the present and forgotten by the future."
Commodus
C
"History is the judge of all actions."
Claudius
C
"History repeats itself to those who do not listen."
Claudius
"History is written by those who remain standing; therefore, always strive to remain standing."
Vespasian
"A society that forgets its history is condemned to relive it in different forms."
Vespasian
T
"History is written by those who understand that the past breathes in the present."
Titus
T
"History proves that ordinary people create extraordinary change."
Titus
"History does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes."
Caligula
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
Caligula