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History - its what those bitter old men write. (Charles V )
Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you! (Charles V )
Revolutions are the locomotives of history. (Charles V )
We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience. (Charles V )
More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly. (Charles V )
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. (Charles V )
To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine. (Charles V )
The main thing is to make history, not to write it. (Charles V )
From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us. (Charles V )
People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors. (Charles V )
The Thames is liquid history. (Charles V )
God cannot alter the past, but historians can. (Charles V )
In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history. (Charles V )
History is the distillation of rumor. (Charles V )
Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles. (Charles V )
The whole past is the procession of the present. (Charles V )
The history of the world is but the biography of great men. (Charles V )
For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future. (Charles V )
History is but a confused heap of facts. (Charles V )
Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men. (Charles V )
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself. (Charles V )
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