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Topic·Learning from the past✕clear
The Renaissance2 quotes
The diversity of human events offers us infinite examples in all sorts of forms. — Michel de Montaigne · 1580O you who hear within these scattered verses The sound of sighs with which I fed my heart In my first errant youthful days when I In part was not the man I am today. — Petrarch · 1352
Age of Enlightenment1 quote
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. — Edmund Burke · 1790
American Revolutionary Period1 quote
Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred. — James Madison · 1787
Middle Ages1 quote
If history records good things of good men, the thoughtful hearer is encouraged to imitate what is good. — Venerable Bede · 731