"Où est le prince assez instruit pour savoir que depuis dix-sept cents ans la secte chrétienne n'a jamais fait que du mal?"
— Voltaire

January 1, 1970

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Where is the prince sufficiently educated to know that for seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm? — Letters of Voltaire and Frederick the Great (New York: Brentano's, 1927), transl. Richard Aldington, letter 160 from Voltaire to Frederick II of Prussia, 6 April 1767