History is philosophy teaching by examples.
Dionysius
Source: Ars rhetorica, XI:2, 1st Century, BC
Contributed by: Zaady
Quoting Thucydides: "The contact with manners then is education; and this Thucydides appears to assert when he says history is philosophy learned from examples."
Source: Ars Rhet. xi. 2.
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