Love truth, but pardon error.
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VoltaireSept Discours en Vers sur l'Homme (1738)
About Voltaire
French Enlightenment writer and satirist, author of Candide. (1694-1778)
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- The best is the enemy of the good.'La Begueule', Contes (1772)
- It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.Le Siecle de Louis XIV (1752)
- Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.Letter to Frederick William, Prince of Prussia (1770)
- Let us cultivate our garden.Candide (1759)
- The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.Sept Discours en Vers sur l'Homme (1738)
- Man is free at the instant he wants to be.Brutus, Act II (1730)
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