"On doit des égards aux vivants; on ne doit aux morts que la vérité." -- Voltaire (b. 1695-11-21, d. 1778-05-30), letter to M. de Grenonville (1719)
My attempt at translation: "One owes consideration to the living; one owes naught to the dead but the truth."
Google translate: "We owe respect to the living, we owe the dead only the truth."
Wikiquote: "We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth."
"When you read how David Koch's death was after a long battle with cancer, your first thought should be the incredible amount of money he spent on trying to deny medical care from everyone, and how many poor people died of cancer thanks to his billions of lobbying $$$" -- Henry Gilbert (hEnereyG), 2019-08-23