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History is still in large measure poetry to me.

It is the historian's function, not to make us clever for the next time, but to make us wise forever.

Only a fairy tale calls a constant condition 'happiness'.

Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness ... Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is life.

Power is of its nature evil, whoever wields it.

The essence of tyranny is the denial of complexity.

Neither in the life of the individual nor in that of mankind is it desirable to know the future.

History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another.

True universality does not consist in knowing much but in loving much.

There might be a fact of the greatest significance reported by Thucydides which will only be recognized as such a hundred years from now.