Left: Otto von Bismarck, right: Marie Antoinette.
Sparkling catch phrases, which are considered to be quotes from certain historical figures, are very popular on social networks. But sometimes the authors of aphorisms are completely different people from other eras. This review presents catchphrases of famous personalities who never uttered them.
"If they don't have bread, let them eat cake"
Marie Antoinette. Martin van Meytens, 1767. | Photo: diletant.media.
It is generally accepted that Marie Antoinette, as Queen of France, once asked why the Parisian poor were constantly rioting. The courtiers answered her that people had no bread. To which the queen said: “If they have no bread, let them eat cakes.” The result of this story is known to everyone: Marie Antoinette's head flew off her shoulders.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau is a French philosopher and writer. | Photo: glavpost.com.
She never uttered the phrase attributed to the queen. The author of the expression is the French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. In his novel “Confession” you can read: “Finally, I remembered what a solution one princess came up with. When she was informed that the peasants had no bread, she replied: “Let them eat brioche.” Brioches are rich buns, but this does not change the mocking nature of what was said.
When Rousseau created his novel, Marie Antoinette was still in her native Austria, but 20 years later, when the queen ruined the country with her extravagant antics, it was the French who attributed to her the expression about buns.
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Statements about the history of great people, based both on personal experience and formed under the influence of scientific teachings, certain social circles, and authoritative opinions.
I suggest that you familiarize yourself with the statements and make sure that history is important through the example of great people who believed in its excellence.
- History is a witness to the past, also the light of truth, and truth alone is enough for honest actions.” Cicero.
- “History is philosophy in examples” Thucydides.
- “History is a living memory, a teacher of life and a messenger of new events” Pliny the Younger.
- “Not knowing history is always a child” Cicero.
- “People do not learn from the mistakes of history and this is the most important lesson of history” Old Huxley.
- “Modern history is a mechanism that transforms documents into monuments” Paul Foucault.
- “Anyone can make history, but only great men can write it” Oscar Wilde.
- “World history is a world court” Johann Schiller.
- “Man does not realize and does not reveal himself in history, he makes his way through it” Tagore.
- “History is but the quintessence of gossip” Carlyle.
- “History is a treasure chest of our deeds, a witness to the past, an example for the present, science, a warning to the future.” Cervantes.
- “History is written to establish strict truth” Pliny the Younger.
- “History is slander. In its vast expanses, one wave, even a big one, doesn’t have much significance” Arnold.
- “Our history is completely a product of nature, namely the vast region that we inherited from it. And it was history that scattered us in different directions, scattered us in space from the moment we appeared on this earth and entered it (history)” Chaadaev.
- “Good historical novels are worth a lot more than history courses.” Honore de Balzac.
- “I know that you want to be an author, then read the story, and if your heart does not bleed from the suffering of the human race, then put down your pen, for it can only depict the coldness and darkness of your soul” Karamzin.
- “History, like nature, has its own laws” Lion Feuchtwanger.
- “Man is a being who creates his own history, but he can neither repeat his past nor get rid of it.” WystenOden.
- “In the history of any people there could be many pages that would be magnificent if they were not deceptive” Denis Diderot.
- “Herodotus - the father of history” Marcus Tullius Cicero.
- “History should not be taught, but explained. History is not a judge, but a lawyer." Benedetto Croce.
- “History makes no sense” Karl Popper.
- “What is history if not a story about unsuccessful attempts to realize plans, and a reflection of unfulfilled hopes?” Samuel Johnson.
- “What will history say?
- “History, sir, will always lie.” Bernard Shaw.
- “History is the science of what no longer exists and will never exist” Paul Valéry.
- “History is forced to repeat itself again and again, because simply no one listens to it” Lawrence Peter.
- “The history of mankind is mainly only the history of ideas” H. G. Wells.
- “Legend always triumphs over history” Sarah Bernhardt.
- “The best thing that history can give is the enthusiasm it arouses” Johann Goethe.
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"Religion is the opium of the people"
Still from the film “12 Chairs”. | Photo: berdichev.biz.
In the novel “12 Chairs” by Ilf and Petrov, Ostap Bender asks Father Fyodor: “How much is opium for the people?” It is common to think that the main character quotes Lenin. However, the phrase, which became an aphorism, was first used by Karl Marx, formulating it as follows: “Religion is the opium of the people.”
Charles Kingsley is an English writer and preacher. | Photo: images.npg.org.uk.
But Marx himself borrowed this idea from the English writer and preacher Charles Kingsley. He wrote: “We use the Bible simply as a dose of opium to calm an overworked beast of burden—to keep order among the poor.”
