A small door in a plum-coloured wall with golden light under it and a key on the floor.

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Voltaire

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

Some truths don't suit every listener or every era. It suggests that timing and audience matter, and that a fact can be right yet still land badly, or go unheard, when the people or moment aren't ready.

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