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Quotation by Cesare Beccaria
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On Crimes and Punishments (1764)Related Subjects
truth (8) past, the (7) Europe (7) time (6) politics (6) knowledge (6) art (6) science (6) poets (5) poetry (5)
Happy is the nation without a history.
Cesare Beccaria (1735–1794), Italian jurist, philosopher. On Crimes and Punishments, Introduction (1764).
Thomas Carlyle attributes a similar utterance to Charles de Montesquieu, in History of Frederick the Great (1858-1865) bk. 16, ch. 1: "Happy the people whose annals are blank in history-books!"
Thomas Carlyle attributes a similar utterance to Charles de Montesquieu, in History of Frederick the Great (1858-1865) bk. 16, ch. 1: "Happy the people whose annals are blank in history-books!"
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