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• The reign of Antoninus 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 (1737-1794) -- Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776), Chap. iii...
• In the best of possible worlds the chateau of monseigneur the baron was the most beautiful of chateaux, and madame the best of possible baronesses.
  -- Francis M. Voltaire (1694-1778) -- Candide, Chap. i...
• In this country [England] it is well to kill from time to time an admiral to encourage the others.
  -- Francis M. Voltaire (1694-1778) -- Candide, Chap. xxiii...
• Crush the infamous thing. -- Francis M.
  Voltaire (1694-1778) -- Letter to d'Alembert, June 23, 1760...
• Love truth, but pardon error. -- Francis M.
  Voltaire (1694-1778) -- Discours sur l'Homme, Discours 3...
• The superfluous, a very necessary thing. -- Francis M.
  Voltaire (1694-1778) -- Le Mondain, Line 21...
• It is said that God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.
  -- Francis M. Voltaire (1694-1778) -- Letter to M. le Riche, Feb. 6, 1770...
• Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.
  -- Francis M. Voltaire (1694-1778) -- Epitre a l'Auteur du Livre des Trois Imposteurs, cxi...