A Quote by Voltaire

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

Voltaire

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Voltaire
French - Writer
November 21, 1694 - May 30, 1778

History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs

Voltaire

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

Edward Gibbon

Antoninus diffused order and tranquility over the greatest part of the earth. His reign is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history; which is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

Edward Gibbon

History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

Edward Gibbon

Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.

Pierre Bayle

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

Voltaire

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.

Voltaire

I believe, indeed, that it is more laudable to suffer great misfortunes than to do great things.

Stanislaw I Leszczynski

It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump.

David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech

During misfortunes, nothing aggravates our condition more, than to be esteemed deserving of them.

Norm MacDonald

History, in fact, is no more than a list of the crimes of humanity, human follies and accidents

Edward Gibbon

There is nothing more lonely than eternity. And nothing is more cozy for us than to be a human being. This indeed is another contradiction-how can we keep the bonds of our humanness and still venture gladly and purposefully into the absolute loneliness of eternity?

Carlos Castaneda

We feel public misfortunes just so far as they affect our private circumstances, and nothing of this nature appeals more directly to us than the loss of money.

Livy

Crimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons, with chains and whips, with crosses and gibbets, with thumbscrews and racks, with hangmen and heads-men — and yet these frightful means and instrumentalities have committed far more crimes than they have prevented.... Ignorance, filth, and poverty are the missionaries of crime. As long as dishonorable success outranks honest effort — as long as society bows and cringes before the great thieves, there will be little ones enough to fill the jails.