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Voltaire Quotes about History

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History never repeats itself. Man always does.

History never repeats itself. Man always does.

Men, History, Doe

History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property.

People, History, Littles

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

History, Crime, Dump

L'Ingenu ch. 10 (1767) See Gibbon 4

Historians are gossips who tease the dead

History, Gossip, Tease

History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.

Play, History, Tricks

History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.

Climbing, History, Boots

History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.

Hands, History, Fiction

Voltaire (1955). “Voltaire's Alphabet of wit”

History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.

Shoes, History, Sound

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

History, Crime, Register

All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon

History, Historical, Fables

What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them.

Rights, History, Should

Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.148, Penguin

This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

History, Empires, Holy

Essai sur l'Histoire Generale et sur les Moeurs et l'Esprit des Nations ch. 70 (1756)

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

Fighting, History, Architecture

History should be written as philosophy.

Philosophy, History, Should

A torch lighted in the forests of America set all Europe in conflagration.

Europe, America, History

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.

Happy Times, History, Virtue

Voltaire, John Morley, William F. Fleming, Oliver Herbrand Gordon Leigh (1904). “The Works of Voltaire: Ancient and modern history”

History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.

History, Invention, Imaginative

He was not the greatest of men but he was the greatest of kings.

Kings, Men, History

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