"We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing"

"The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down"

"Women, can't live with them, can't live without them"

"People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest"

"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon"

"It's not that we use technology, we live technology"

"Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it"

"A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect"

"We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans"

"History is a set of lies agreed upon"

"Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods"