Mr Vidoli's Website

Civilizations are born, flourish, and disappear; one philosophy succeeds another; the railroad replaces the horse and carriage, and the airplane the railroad; the bow becomes a rifle which becomes a bomb ... but people remain the same. Passions and sentiments hardly change.... Human nature is universal, and it endures through all cultures and epochs. — Octavio Paz

History is not the past; it is the present. — James Baldwin

The past has a future we never expect. — Javier Marías

This is the best reason to learn history: not in order to predict the future, but to free yourself of the past and imagine alternative destinies. Of course this is not total freedom -- we cannot avoid being shaped by our past. But some freedom is better than none. — Yuval Noah Harari

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them. — James A. Baldwin