"Ils ne se servent de la pensée que pour autoriser leurs injustices, et n'emploient les paroles que pour déguiser leurs pensées."
— Voltaire

January 1, 1970

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Men use thought only to justify their wrongdoings, and speech only to conceal their thoughts. — Dialogue 14, Le Chapon et la Poularde (1766); reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)