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Category Archive: Theodor Mommsen

Theodor Mommsen Quote: “An independent state does not pay…”

An independent state does not pay too dear a price for its independence in accepting the sufferings of war when it cannot avoid them; a state which has lost its independence may find at least some compensation in the fact that its protector procures for it peace with its neighbours.

November 19, 2018 1817, German, November 30, Quotes by Historians, Theodor Mommsen

Theodor Mommsen Quote: “Sertorius was far from being strong…”

Mommsen Quote, remaining ruins of Carthago in Tunis
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Sertorius was far from being strong enough to renew the gigantic enterprise of Hannibal. He was lost if he left Spain, where all his successes were bound up with the peculiarities of the country and the people; and even there, he was more and more compelled to renounce the offensive.

October 31, 2018 1817, German, November 30, Quotes by Historians, Theodor Mommsen

Theodor Mommsen Quote: “Marcus Crassus cannot, any more than…”

Marcus Crassus cannot, any more than Pompeius, be reckoned among the unconditional adherents of the oligarchy.

October 20, 2018 1817, German, November 30, Quotes by Historians, Theodor Mommsen

Theodor Mommsen Quote: “The Mediterranean Sea with its various…”

Mommsen Quote, calm sea and cliffs in Malta
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The Mediterranean Sea with its various branches, penetrating far into the great Continent, forms the largest gulf of the ocean, and, alternately narrowed by islands or projections of the land and expanding to considerable breadth, at once separates and connects the three divisions of the Old World.

October 19, 2018 1817, German, November 30, Quotes by Historians, Theodor Mommsen
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