Theodor Mommsen Quotes

History is neither written nor made without love or hate.

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.

Without passion, there is no genius.

History has a Nemesis for every sin.

The writer of history is perhaps closer to the artist than the scholar.