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Theodor Mommsen Quotes

History is neither written nor made without love or hate.

History is neither written nor made without love or hate.

Theodor Mommsen
Hate, History, Cynical

Without passion, there is no genius.

Theodor Mommsen
Passion, Genius
Theodor Mommsen, William Purdie Dickson (1871). “The history of Rome”, p.539

History has a Nemesis for every sin.

Theodor Mommsen
Historical, Sin, Nemesis
Theodor Mommsen (1864). “The History of Rome”, p.252

The writer of history is perhaps closer to the artist than the scholar.

Theodor Mommsen
Artist, Scholar

The belief that it is useless to employ partial and palliative means against radical evils, because they only remedy them in part, is an article of faith never preached unsuccessfully by meanness to simplicity, but it is none the less absurd.

Theodor Mommsen
Mean, Evil, Simplicity
"The History of Rome - Volume 4: Part 2" by Theodor Mommsen, translated by W.P.Dickson, 1866.

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