When the masses get involved in reasoning, everything is lost.

Quand la populace se mele de raisonner, tout est perdu.

Voltaire

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The masses Democracy Political theory

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Voltaire

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Letter

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French

Time

1766 1760s 18th century

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Philosopher Writer

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Voltaire. Letter to Etienne Noel Damilaville. 1 Apr. 1766.

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Bachelard, Gaston. La Poetique de l'Espace [The Poetics of Space]. Presses Universitaires de France, 1948, ch. 1.

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