Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it

Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.