Voltaire, God and Human Beings, 1769

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“In general men are stupid, vengeful, ungrateful, jealous, greedy for other people’s goods, abusive of their superiority when strong, and deceitful when weak.”

–First sentence, Chapter 1, Our Crimes and Stupidities