>"There exists another history, more absurd [ridicule] than the history of Rome since the time of Tacitus: it is the history of Byzantium. This worthless collection contains nothing but declamations and miracles. It is a disgrace to the human mind."
He can't keep getting away with this
Constantinople > Rome
>>927701
Fourth Crusade did nothing wrong
He's right though, the Byzantines are the biggest joke of an "empire" ever.
>>927734
I'm pretty sure China is a bigger joke than Byzantium.
>>927768
>Be Byzantium.
>Invaded by Muslim Steppenigs.
>Stay down.
>Islam'd
>Be China.
>Invaded by Steppenigs.
>Invaders absorbed into culture.
>Booted Steppenigs out.
>Glorious revival.
>>927777
Chen Jianbin was so based in that tv series.
>>927734
>He's right though, the Byzantines are the biggest joke of an "empire" ever.
Aren't you forgetting someone?
>>927699
The more I find out about Voltaire, the more I begin to dislike him.
He strikes me as someone more preoccupied with satirizing everything instead of developing actual positive ideas for how the world should function. Basically just a smug hedonist who only managed to talk shit for so long because it kept being politically viable for different states to take him in when the one he was staying in inevitably got fed up on his shit.
>>928184
Is Voltaire proto-/pol?
>>927701
Rome over istanbul just for the great writers that lived and wrote there
Would Voltaire be able to get a degree today if he wrote like that?
>>928205
He's literally Marx minus Judaism
>>927701
Istanbul*
>>928245
So... /pol/?
>>928236
Given he spent his life vilifying the West and praising Orientals I'm sure he would have been given a warm welcome.
>>927699
What the fuck even is his problem?
>>928184
The more I read about Voltaire, the more I begin to like him. I'm yet to find a more quotable person.
Candide is one of the funniest books I've ever read. His ability to express his religious and political arguments in such a witty way is worthy of respect.
>>928491
Actually, I'd argue that the Enlightenment was everything wrong about Voltaire. Take his message and replace the wit and rationality with radicalism and morbidity.
>>928491
>everything wrong with the Enlightenment.
t. ass pained Christfag
>>927699
Byzantium was an Empire that spanned 3 continents and 1000 years. It held some of the greatest minds, inventions, and cities in all of European history.
Voltaire is an overrated frog popularized by occasionally making some jokes
>>930481
>Byzantium was an Empire that spanned 3 continents and 1000 years. It held some of the greatest minds, inventions, and cities in all of European history.
You mean the Holy Roman Empire did.
>>930500
Hapsburg empire is not the same thing as the Holy Roman Empire.
>Eastern
>Roman
>Empire
>>930525
I wasn't referring to the Habsburg. The HRE fits the criteria that he listed better than the Byzantines.
>>930566
Feudal maps are beautiful
>>930566
>>930525
>>930500
3 continents though?
>>930572
>1789
>feudal
this ain't the Tsardom of all the Russias
>>927734
>not the >H>R>E
Do you even Voltaire
>>930579
>>930481
>>927701
YOU SHOULDN'T FUCKED WITH MY BOATS WANNABE ROMAN FAGGOTS! NOW YOU'RE ALL FUCKING FUCKED! BIG VENICE COCK COMING THROUGH!
>Nothing will stand in our way
>>927734
Yes, but the Roman Empire which lasted until 1453 A.D was not. :^)
>>930413
>Implying nothing was wrong with the Enlightenment
