“Men looke not at the greatnesse of the evill past, but the greatnesse of the good to follow.”
Thomas Hobbes book Leviathan
The First Part, Chapter 15, p. 76 (Italics as per text)
Leviathan (1651)
“There is a kind of selective memory that afflicts men when they view the past. They see the good and overlook the evil.”
Source: The Roman Empire (1967), p. 191
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