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François de La Mothe Le Vayer
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François de La Mothe Le Vayer (August 1588 – 9 May 1672) was a French writer who was known to use the pseudonym Orosius Tubero. He was admitted to the Académie française in 1639, and was the tutor of Louis XIV.
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Tous les égards sont dus à ceux avec qui nous vivons, et nous ne devons rien aux autres que la vérité.
Every respect is due to the living: to the others nothing except truth.
De la manière de critiquer les auteurs. Translated by Craufurd Tait Ramage, Beautiful Thoughts from French and Italian Authors (Liverpool: Edward Howell, 1866) pp. 218–19. This is the motto of the Biographie Universelle, but in somewhat different words:—"On doit des égards aux vivants, on ne doit aux morts que la vérité." See: Voltaire, Critique de l'Œdipe, Letter to M. de Genonville
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