Theodor Mommsen Quotes

• History is neither written nor made without love or hate.

  Theodor Mommsen

  Hate, History, Cynical

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• Without passion, there is no genius.

  Theodor Mommsen

  Passion, Genius

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

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

  Theodor Mommsen

  Artist, Scholar

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• History has a Nemesis for every sin.

  Theodor Mommsen

  Historical, Sin, Nemesis

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

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• 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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