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Voltaire

On doit des égards aux vivants; on ne doit aux morts que la vérité.

We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth.

François-​Marie Arouet (pen name “Voltaire,” 1694 – 1778), Letter to M. de Grenonville (1719).

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