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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:24am on 2019-08-24

"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 ([twitter.com profile] hEnereyG), 2019-08-23

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posted by [personal profile] malada at 12:54pm on 2019-08-24
David Koch died of cancer? How... appropriate.

-m
minoanmiss: Minoan style drawing of the constellation Orion. (Orion)
posted by [personal profile] minoanmiss at 05:56pm on 2019-08-24
Well said Mr. Gilbert.

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