Wilde, verified
"Polybius was one of those many men who are born too late to be original."
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Every quote →"Greek philosophy began and ended in scepticism: the first and the last word of Greek history was Faith."
"The only spirit which is entirely removed from us is the mediæval; the Greek spirit is essentially modern."
"It is so hard to use facts, so easy to accumulate them."
"Free criticism is as unknown as free trade."
"Herodotus wrote to illustrate the wonderful ways of Providence and the nemesis that falls on sin, and his work is a good example of the truth that nothing can dispense with criticism so much as a moral aim."
"Herodotus would have believed in Scipio's dream. Thucydides would have ignored it entirely. Polybius explains it."