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Wishing for one's country's greatness means wishing harm to its neighbours
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What Voltaire actually said
- Voltaire French writer and public activist (1694 to 1778)
Such then is the human state that to wish for one's country's greatness is to wish harm to one's neighbours.
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↗Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary (English selection, H. I. Woolf translation, 1924)gutenberg.org
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