History is the teacher of life.
Historia magistra vitae.
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Cicero
Roman statesman and philosopher (106-43 BC). A novus homo who reached the consulship, he saved Rome from Catiline in 63 BC and opposed Caesar's dictatorship. After the Philippics, Antony had his head nailed to the Forum.
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What history teaches is that peoples and governments have never learned anything from it.
-- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
History as a whole is a progressive, gradually self-disclosing revelation of the Absolute.
-- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
Let the welfare of the people be the supreme law.
-- Cicero
I see, and say nothing.
-- Elizabeth I of England
Never abandon history! (abbreviated JASMERAH)
-- Sukarno
He who does not know the past cannot understand the present, nor shape the future.
-- Helmut Kohl