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This may be the most important proposition revealed by history: At the time, no one knew what was coming.
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History is as light as individual human life, unbearably light, light as a feather, as dust swirling into the air, as whatever will no longer exist tomorrow.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make
Perhaps in time the so-called dark ages will be thought of as including our own
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome
History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn
Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it
Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft
History will be kind to me for as I intend to write it
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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