Quote #2

It is impossible to write ancient history because we do not have enough sources and impossible to write modern history because we have too many.

More from Charles Peguy

  1. Everything begins in mysticism and ends in politics.
  2. The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful to…
  3. The world has changed more in the last thirty years than it has since Jesus Christ.
  4. When I see my best friend coming I do not say to myself 'How am I going to manage propagandizing him?'
  5. The man who wishes to remain faithful to justice must make himself continually unfaithful to inexhaustibly triumphant injustice.

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