If History teaches any lesson at all, it is that there are no historical lessons.
Lucien Febvre
2.
What better preparation for a history which seeks to bring societies to life and to understand that life than to have really lived, commanded men, suffered with them and shared their joys.
Lucien Febvre
3.
A mere collector of supposed facts is as useful as a collector of matchboxes.
Lucien Febvre
4.
It is never a waste of time to study the history of a word.
