Quotes on history

“The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.”

Topics: forgive, history, liberties

“Old religious factions are volcanoes burnt out.”

Topics: burke, burnt, edmund

“We have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.”

Topics: degrees, delight, history

“Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine, that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field.”

Topics: because, dozen, fern

“Of all the creatures that breathe and move across the earth, there is nothing feebler than man.”

Topics: across, breathe, creatures

“All men have need of the Gods.”

Topics: gods, history, homer

“I should rather labor as another’s serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead.”

Topics: another, history, homer

“Among all men on Earth, bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the Muse has taught them songs, and loves the race of bards.”

Topics: among, bards, earth

“Bad herdsmen ruin their flocks.”

Topics: flocks, herdsmen, history

“Men flourish only for a moment.”

Topics: flourish, history, homer

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