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The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.
历史的优点似乎有三种，因为它能使人产生幻想，增进理解，加强美德。
— David Hume 大卫·休谟
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更多好句 ↗The only way to find out anything about what kinds of lives people led in any given period is to tunnel into their records and to let them speak for themselves.
要想知道人们在特定时期过着怎样的生活，唯一的方法就是挖掘他们的记录，让他们为自己说话。
John Dos Passos
约翰·多斯·帕索斯
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
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
不能从历史中吸取教训的人注定要重蹈覆辙。
George Santayana
乔治·桑塔亚纳
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
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
Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.
人们从历史的教训中学不到多少，而这是所有历史教训中最重要的。
Aldous Huxley
奥尔德斯·赫胥黎