The Europa Barbarorum Quotes Project

[Mediolanicus]

I've got some quotes on history in general, I don't know if they are useful but I thought I'd share.
I'll be looking for quotes about the EB period after this.

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« My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the taste of an immediate public, but was done to last for ever. »
Θουκυδίδης – Thucydides (ca.431 - ca.404 BC) The History of the Peloponnesian War I.22

« Equidem beatos puto, quibus deorum munere datum est aut facere scribenda aut scribere legenda, beatissimos vero quibus utrumque. »
The fortunate man, in my opinion, is he to whom the gods have granted the power either to do something which is worth recording or to write what is worth reading; and most fortunate of all is the man who can do both.
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus – Pliny the Younger (ca.61-113) Epistulae VI.16
- in a letter to Tacitus.

« Sine ira et studio. »
Without anger or bias.
Publius Cornelius Tacitus[1] (ca.56-120), Annales 1.1
- Tacitus’ personal standard for the writing of history.
[1] "Publius" seems to be the consensus. One of his manuscripts is signed with Publius.
On the other hand, Sidonius Apollinaris (431-489) called him "Gaius", but as you can see, they didn't know each other intimately.

« Dwell on the past and you’ll lose an eye. Forget the past and you’ll lose both. »
- Old Russian proverb.

« Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it. »
Oscar Wilde The Critic as Artist (1891) Part I

« The very ink in which all history is written is mere fluid prejudice. »
Mark Twain Following the Equator (1897)

« History: gossip well told. »
Elbert Hubbard The Roycroft Dictionary (1914)

« Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood? »
Carl Gustav Jung Woman in Europe (1927)

« The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there. »
L.P. Hartley The Go-Between (1953) Prologue

I realized that 1 year of Greek 8 years ago isn't enough the find the Greek version of the Theucidides-quote. I don't where the line starts or stops in his The History of the Peloponnesian War...