Theodor Mommsen quotes

Theodor Mommsen quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“History is neither written nor made without love or hate.”
-- Theodor Mommsen

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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

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

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“History has a Nemesis for every sin.”
-- Theodor Mommsen

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

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“The writer of history is perhaps closer to the artist than the scholar.”
-- Theodor Mommsen

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“Without passion, there is no genius.”
-- Theodor Mommsen

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

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