“While loving glory so much how can you persist in a plan which will cause you to lose it?”

—  Voltaire

En aimant tant la gloire, comment pouvez-vous vous obstiner à un projet qui vous la fera perdre?
Letters of Voltaire and Frederick the Great (New York: Brentano's, 1927), transl. Richard Aldington, letter 130 from Voltaire to Frederick II of Prussia, October 1757. http://perso.orange.fr/dboudin/VOLTAIRE/39/1757/3426.html
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En aimant tant la gloire, comment pouvez-vous vous obstiner à un projet qui vous la fera perdre?

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