History is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
Voltaire · The source reads: “En effet, l'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs. Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.”
Voltaire · The source reads: “En effet, l'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs. Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.”
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Voltaire · Le Droit du Seigneur, act II, sc. vi
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Winston Churchill · The source reads: “And yet at the end of those four years the morale of the Allies was higher than that of the Germans, who had moved from one aggressive triumph to another, and who stood everywhere triumphant invaders of the lands into which they had broken.…During that war we repeatedly asked ourselves the question: How are we going to win? and no one was able to answer it with much precision, until at the end, quite suddenly, quite unexpectedly, our terrible foe collapsed before us, and we were so glutted with victory that in our folly we threw it away.” · House of Commons, 18 June 1940
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