history Quotes

Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues.

Comedy has had no history, because it was not at first treated seriously.

Now that practical skills have developed enough to provide adequately for material needs, one of these sciences which are not devoted to utilitarian ends [mathematics] has been able to arise in Egypt, the priestly caste there having the leisure necessary... ...

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

That the equalization of property exercises an influence on political society was clearly understood even by some of the old legislators. Laws were made by Solon and others prohibiting an individual from possessing as much land as he pleased.

It's not just once or twice, but countless times that the same ideas appear in the world.

All three states - the Lacedaemonian, the Cretan, and the Carthaginian - nearly resemble one another, and are very different from any others. Many of the Carthaginian institutions are excellent. The superiority of their constitution is proved by the fact... ...

The same ideas, one must believe, recur in men's minds not once or twice but again and again.

These, then, are the four kinds of royalty. First the monarchy of the heroic ages; this was exercised over voluntary subjects, but limited to certain functions; the king was a general and a judge, and had the control of religion... ...