"Le public est une bête féroce: il faut l'enchaîner ou la fuir."
— Voltaire

January 1, 1970

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The public is a ferocious beast: one must chain it up or flee from it. — Letter to Mademoiselle Quinault, quoted in Charles Sainte-Beuve, "Lettres inédites de Voltaire," Causeries de Lundi (20 October 1856) an English translation can be found on this page: [http://www.humanistictexts.org/voltaire.htm