"En aimant tant la gloire, comment pouvez-vous vous obstiner à un projet qui vous la fera perdre?"
— Voltaire

January 1, 1970

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While loving glory so much how can you persist in a plan which will cause you to lose it? — Letters of Voltaire and Frederick the Great (New York: Brentano's, 1927), transl. Richard Aldington, letter 130 from Voltaire to Frederick II of Prussia, October 1757