“The principal and proper work of history is to instruct and enable men by the knowledge of actions past to bear themselves prudently in the present and providently in the future”. (Thomas Hobbes, 17th Century philosopher)

“He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living hand to mouth”. (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe).

“He who doesn’t know where he comes from cannot be expected to know where he is going.” (Robert Hanrott)