Voltaire Quotes About History
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History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.
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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
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All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.
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History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times.
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This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.
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All the arts are brothers; each one is a light to the others.
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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them.
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History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.
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The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.
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A torch lighted in the forests of America set all Europe in conflagration.
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History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.
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History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property.
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All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon
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Historians are gossips who tease the dead
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He was not the greatest of men but he was the greatest of kings.
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History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.
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History should be written as philosophy.
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History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.
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Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
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History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.
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