Donald Kagan

From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I had a choice. I read a lot of things, but history had a special appeal for me. ↗

— Donald Kagan

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History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story. ↗

— Donald Kagan

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I can see that you are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place or a different time: What's the same and what's different? ↗

— Donald Kagan

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We, to some degree, are like what we are because we inherited certain things from the Greeks and the Romans. One of them that's so striking is the whole area of politics. ↗

— Donald Kagan

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Without history we are the prisoners of the accident of where and when we were born. ↗

— Donald Kagan

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You have to liberate yourself first from the prejudices of the world in which you live. ↗

— Donald Kagan

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