History is the lie commonly agreed upon. History is more or less bunk. An account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. History could be divided into events which do not matter and events which probably never occurred.
History is only a confused heap of facts.
History is Philosophy teaching by examples. Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child. The first lesson of history is the good of evil. History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.