It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.