Voltaire
Voltaire
François-Marie Arouet, known by his nom de plume Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion, freedom of expression, and separation of church and state...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth21 November 1694
CityParis, France
CountryFrance
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History is no more than the portrayal 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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History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.
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History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.
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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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He was not the greatest of men but he was the greatest of kings.
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A torch lighted in the forests of America set all Europe in conflagration.
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Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
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History should be written as philosophy.
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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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History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.
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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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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.