Self-righteousness in retrospect is easy--also cheap,

Righteousness is easy in retrospect.

Righteousness is easy in retrospect.

The historian, like everyone else, is forever trapped in the egocentric predicament, and 'presentism' is his original sin.

Trying to fight someone without understanding them is the same as travelling somewhere without knowing the directions, it ends in complete failure.

Troubles impending always seem worse than troubles surmounted, but this does not prove that they really are.