It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

— Voltaire in 1752

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"Catalogue pour la plupart des écrivains français qui ont paru dans Le Siècle de Louis XIV, pour servir à l'histoire littéraire de ce temps," Le Siècle de Louis XIV (1752)

Note: The most frequently attributed variant of this quote is: It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

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