“There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved.”
“Nothing is more surprising than the surprises of history, and nothing more untrustworthy than the uncritical extrapolation of the tendencies of the recent past.”
Essay on Atomism: From Democritus to 1960 (1961), p.8
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Chap. 3 : What Can History Tell Us about Contemporary Society?
On History (1997)

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“There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.”
Il n'est pas de plaisir plus doux que de surprendre un homme en lui donnant plus qu'il n'espère.
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Le Spleen de Paris (1862)

“Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.”
En effet, l'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs.
L'Ingénu, ch.10 (1767)
Quoted in The End, part 13 of A Series of Unfortunate Events
Citas

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

Address to the House of Lords (19 November 2010)
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