"I can see only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen."

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The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero