A single Voltaire will do more honor to France than a thousand pedants, a thousand false wits, a thousand great men of inferior order. (Frederick II of Prussia)

A single Voltaire will do more honor to France than a thousand pedants, a thousand false wits, a thousand great men of inferior order.

Frederick II of Prussia

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