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History Quotes by Voltaire
- History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property.
- History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.
- History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.
- History should be written as philosophy.
- Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
- This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.
- What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on...
- The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
- History never repeats itself. Man always does.
- History is the study of the world's crime
- History is the lie commonly agreed upon.
- History is fables agreed upon.
- The man who ventures to write contemporary history must expect to be attacked both for everything he has said and everything he has not said
- History is no more than the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes
- The history of human opinion is scarcely anything, more than the history of human errors
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