Famous quotes that draw lessons from history include:

1. History will repeat itself. ——Thucydides, the ancient Greek historian

2. History is hard to bully. ——Zhang Tingyu of the Qing Dynasty, "History of the Ming Dynasty·Li Yingsheng Biography"

3. The difficulty of painting is the spirit. ——Wang Anshi, a politician and writer in the Northern Song Dynasty, "Reading History"

4. History is the teacher of life. ——Italian historian and philosopher Croce

5. The more ancient things become, the more convenient they become for the people. ——Qing Dynasty politician and litterateur Wei Yuan's "Mogu"

6. Right and wrong are called "faithful history". ——Feng Menglong, a writer and dramatist of the Ming Dynasty, "Chronicles of the States of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty"

7. The trouble with people is that they don't read history. ——Sima Guang, politician, writer, and historian of the Northern Song Dynasty

8. History is the propaganda of the winner. ——British historian Toynbee

9. Yin Jian is not far away, in the era of Queen Xia. ——The poetry collection "The Book of Songs"

10. Only biographies are true history.

——Scottish essayist and historian Thomas Carlyle