“The belief that it is useless to employ partial and palliative means against radical evils, because they only remedy them in part, is an article of faith never preached unsuccessfully by meanness to simplicity, but it is none the less absurd.”
Quote by Theodor Mommsen
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Theodor Mommsen
Theodor Mommsen was a German historian, writer, and politician. He is best known for his comprehensive history of Rome, 'Römer Geschichte', which won him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1902. Born on November 30, 1817, in Kiel, Mommsen spent much of his life in Berlin, where he taught at the University of Berlin. more