Famous quotes containing the words history, poland and/or partitions:
“This above all makes history useful and desirable: it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.”
—Titus Livius (Livy)
“It is often said that Poland is a country where there is anti-semitism and no Jews, which is pathology in its purest state.”
—Bronislaw Geremek (b. 1932)
“Great wits are sure to madness near allied,
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.”
—John Dryden (1631–1700)