We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.
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The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.Voltaire
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
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The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.
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Once the people begin to reason, all is lost.
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The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out.
Voltaire
To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
Voltaire
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