Famous quotes containing the words history of, history, century and/or empire:
“No one is ahead of his time, it is only that the particular variety of creating his time is the one that his contemporaries who are also creating their own time refuse to accept.... For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts. In the history of the refused in the arts and literature the rapidity of the change is always startling.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“The principle office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.”
—Tacitus (c. 55–117)
“Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)
“An empire is an immense egotism.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)