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No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what may be, he is no politician.
没有人能成为政治家，除非他首先是历史学家或旅行家;因为，除非他能看到必须是什么，或者可能是什么，否则他不是政治家。
— James Harrington 詹姆斯·哈林顿
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更多好句 ↗In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write?
在文学史上，有许多伟大而不朽的作品，是作者生前没有发表过的。如果作者在写作中没有得到自我肯定，又怎么能继续写作呢?
Gao Xingjian
高行健
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
如果历史不断重演，而意想不到的事情总是发生，那么人类一定无法从经验中学习。
George Bernard Shaw
萧伯纳
The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?
爱好浪漫的人可以到别处去寻求满足，但爱好真理的人如果不求助于历史，又能向何处求助呢?
Katharine Anthony
凯萨琳·安东尼
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
大多数人都有一种近乎无限的能力，认为一切都是理所当然的。人不能从历史的教训中学到很多东西，这是所有历史教训中最重要的一条。
Aldous Huxley
奥尔德斯·赫胥黎
For now more than ever, we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.
现在，我们比以往任何时候都更必须牢记这样一个事实:每当我们剥夺了我们所憎恨的人的自由，我们就为我们所爱的人开辟了失去自由的道路。
Wendell Willkie
威尔基
The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world, in spite of History.
诗歌的命运就是不顾历史，与世界相爱。
Derek Walcott
沃尔科特