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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
What is history but a fable agreed upon?
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
n Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
History should be written as philosophy.
The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.
History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.
We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
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