The Lessons of History
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“No man who is in a hurry is quite civilised.”
Source: The Story of Civilization: The life of Greece; being a history of Greek civilization from the beginnings, and of civilization in the Near East from the death of Alexander, to the Roman conquest; with an introduction on the prehistoric culture of Crete
Source: Rousseau and Revolution: A History of Civilization in France, England, and Germany from 1756, and in the Remainder of Europe from 1715 to 1789
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“The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.”
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“Man, not the earth, makes civilization.”
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“A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.”
Source: The Story of Civilization: Caesar and Christ, a history of Roman civilization and of Christianity from their beginnings to A.D. 325
“The laws of biology are the fundamental lessons of history.”
Source: The Lessons of History
Source: The Story of Civilization: The age of Napoleon; a history of European civilization from 1789 to 1815