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


Edward Gibbon

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History 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 History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
EDWARD GIBBON The reign of Antoninus is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history...
EDWARD GIBBON Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
VOLTAIRE History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.
VOLTAIRE History is no more than the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes
VOLTAIRE History is just the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) History is just a portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.
VOLTAIRE Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.
PIERRE BAYLE The history of mankind is a history of war.
MIKE LOVE What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies a...
WILLIAM S. PALEY What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies a...
WILLIAM PALEY I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost i...
MARGARET THATCHER I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash...
MIKE TYSON Homo sapiens conquered the world thanks above all to its unique language.
YUVAL NOAH HARARI Recuerden que los microbios son, junto con la desordenada codicia de los vienes ajenos, el gran moto...
JUAN ESLAVA GALáN The Highlanders are Great Thieves
CASSIUS DIO, ROMAN HISTORIAN, 3RD CENTURY A.D. The average person might well be no happier today than in 1800. Even the freedom we value so highly ...
YUVAL NOAH HARARI Recuerden que los microbios son, junto con la desordenada codicia de los bienes ajenos, el gran moto...
JUAN ESLAVA GALáN في الوقت الذي ابتزت فيه اسرائيل, ولا تزال, اوروبا والغر�...
محمد المخزنجي History was interesting to the extent that it was catastrophic and, while that might make absorbing ...
ISAAC ASIMOV Knowledge that does not change behaviour is useless. But knowledge that changes behaviour quickly lo...
YUVAL NOAH HARARI Anecdotes are the gleaming toys of history. The history of mankind is little else than a narrative...
SAMUEL JOHNSON The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice.
LOUIS KRONENBERGER In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice
LOUIS KRONENBERGER We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make...
JOHN F. KENNEDY The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.
FRANZ KAFKA The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
WOODROW WILSON The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.
EDWIN POWELL HUBBLE History has been the history of warfare.
GODFREY REGGIO But if the history of mankind was her own history, in a way she was thousands of years old.
JOSTEIN GAARDER Plato, Socrates, Aristotle and many more great minds laid the groundwork for the development of mode...
ABHIJIT NASKAR Emerging from barbarism is a slow process and as man is , geologically speaking, still very young, h...
THéODORE MONOD As for me, I prefer truth to goodthink. I feel surer on my ground.
DAVID S. LANDES Ах, век мифов и легенд. Шарлемань, рыцарство, горный Пир...
JULIAN BARNES When a man's instincts are evil, repentance has a short lease and brief is his gratitude towards tho...
KHUSWANT SINGH As a child, I was an obsessive reader, as was everybody in my family all winter long with my father....
JIM HARRISON I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?
PAT ROBERTSON Nothing would be more profitable to us than a right history of mankind.
ADAM WEISHAUPT The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of hea...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Loving someone who never loved you, is like remembering a face you never saw.
No matter how har...
RATISH EDWARDS There will be things I won't tell you ever ,
Then there will be things that you won't ever lis...
RATISH EDWARDS I wish I could see you some day,
Just for a moment, just see you,

I wish I could h...
RATISH EDWARDS Goodrich was the biggest acquisition in the history of aerospace.
LOUIS R. CHENEVERT The history of the world is the world's court of justice.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the...
VIRGINIA WOOLF No one missed more basketball in the history of NBA than I did. I played 14 seasons, on the roster f...
BILL WALTON God did not call us to make history; God called us to be history!
JOHN M SHEEHAN The power of habit and the charm of novelty are the two adverse forces which explain the follies of ...
MARIA DE BEAUSACQ The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Th...
SIMON WIESENTHAL Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our o...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The history of mankind is the history of ideas.
LUDWIG VON MISES The history of mankind is the history of ideas.
LUIGI PIRANDELLO God has never, in the history of mankind, allowed his name to go long offended.
DAVID WILKERSON The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL History is not a bad thing. It just reminds us what to do and what not to do in the future.
PHIL MITCHELL The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief ...
H. L. MENCKEN The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief ...
H. L. MENCKEN The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief...
H.L. MENCKEN Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. There are great legends and great fighters in the history of Mexico, and there will be more to come.
CANELO ALVAREZ When the true history fades, ask education and the unbiased story tellers
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH He went into the Gray Joy, drank a glass of Arkanarian brew, patted the hostess's cheek, and deftly ...
ARKADY STRUGATSKY Let us not, in the pride of our superior knowledge, turn with contempt from the follies of our prede...
CHARLES MACKAY Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human...
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political b...
MOLIERE All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political b...
MOLIèRE I think I was the youngest, fastest-promoted buyer in the history of Bloomingdale's.
MICKEY DREXLER Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
H. G. WELLS Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
POPE JOHN PAUL II Any person who considers himself, and intends to remain, a member of Western society inherits the We...
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other sin...
MADALYN MURRAY O'HAIR Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other sin...
MADALYN MURRAY O'HAIR She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
DIANA WYNNE JONES The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask.
The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ...
PAULO COELHO When each and every believer rises up to serve others and function according to their capacity, the ...
HENRY HON To his own children he was at once the ultimate voice of authority and, when time allowed, their mos...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love.
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EDWARD WEEKS Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
EDWARD YOUNG Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.
EDWARD YOUNG When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious thin...
EDWARD COCKER