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Fable Quote by Voltaire

“History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.” quote by Voltaire — Download Open image

“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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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.

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We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know.

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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude.

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Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion.

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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them

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When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not?

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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

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God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

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“A fable from the Age of Heroes." The maester tsked. "You must put these dreams aside, they will only break your heart.”

George R.R. Martin

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“In the specially Christian case we have to react against the heavy bias of fatigue. It is almost impossible to make the facts vivid,…

G.K. Chesterton

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From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see more than himself and nature,…

Alfred de Vigny

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Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Jean Baudrillard

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The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.

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Whosoever counts these Lays as fable, may be assured that I am not of his mind.

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