I am not in any connection with France; I have nothing to fear nor to hope from France.

If you would like, I will make a Panegyric on Louis XV.

without a word of truth in it: but as to political business, there is, at present, none to bring us together; and neither is it I that am to speak first.

When they put a question to me, it will be time to reply: but you, who are so much a man of sense, you see well what a ridiculous business it would be if, without ground given me, I set to prescribing projects of policy to France, and even put them on paper with my own hand! MEMORIAL BY VOLTAIRE.

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