• I can see that you [Bruce Cole] are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place or a different time: What's the same and what's different?

    Donald Kagan: I can see that you [Bruce Cole] are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place or a different time: What's the same and what's different?
    "On Learning from the Greeks". Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov. 2005.