Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child.

I hate all children of precocious talent.

What society does to its children, so will its children do to society.

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

To remain ignorant of history is to remain forever a child

Just what is the civil law? What neither influence can affect, nor power break, nor money corrupt: were it to be suppressed or even merely ignored or inadequately observed, no one would feel safe about anything, whether his own possessions, the inheritance he expects from his father, or the bequests he makes to his children.

Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child.

To be ignorant of the past is to be forever a child.

Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.