Top 6 Theodor Mommsen Quotes (2026 Update)

1. “History has a Nemesis for every sin.”

— Theodor Mommsen

2. “Without passion, there is no genius.”

— Theodor Mommsen

3. “The writer of history is perhaps closer to the artist than the scholar.”

— Theodor Mommsen

4. “History is neither written nor made without love or hate.”

— Theodor Mommsen

5. “The belief that it is useless to employ partial and palliative means against radical evils, because they only remedy them in part, is an article of faith never preached unsuccessfully by meanness to simplicity, but it is none the less absurd.”

— Theodor Mommsen

6. “The fashionable life of the capital shattered not merely the fortunes of men, but also their vigour of body and mind. That elegant world of fragrant ringlets, of fashionable mustachios and ruffles – merry as were its doings in the dance and with the harp, and early and late at the wine-cup – yet concealed in its bosom an alarming abyss of moral and economic ruin, of well or ill concealed despair, and frantic or knavish resolves.”

— Theodor Mommsen

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