LetterI have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it.Voltaire1767★ 5.4
Political literatureEvery step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.Adam FergusonAn Essay on the History of Civil Society · 1767★ 3.5
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