The historian must be a poet, not to create, but to recreate.
历史学家必须是诗人，不是为了创造，而是为了重新创造。
The greatest happiness of the thinking man is to have fathomed the fathomable, and to quietly revere the unfathomable.
思考者最大的幸福是理解可理解的事物，并默默地敬畏不可理解的事物。
The historian is a prophet looking backwards.
历史学家是向后看的先知。
The true history of the world is the history of great men.
The man who has no inner life is the slave to his surroundings.
没有内心生活的人是他周围环境的奴隶。
History has neither the desire nor the capacity to make men better or worse; it merely records what they have been and what they have done.
历史既没有愿望也没有能力使人变得更好或更坏；它仅仅记录了他们曾经是什么以及他们做了什么。
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