History repeats itself, the first as tragedy, then as farce.
Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.
Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.
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