في التاريخ مجلدٌ ضخم يُفتح أمامنا للعبرة، يستخلص من أخطاء البشر وعثراتهم الماضية مادّةَ الحكمة المقبلة.

“In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.”Edmund Burke — Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. In a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in Paris (1790)