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Quote by Franz Anton Mesmer
J’ai le monde pour Juge; et si l’on peut oublier le bien que j’ai fait, et empêcher le bien que je veux faire, J’aurai la postérité pour vengeur.
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The speaker accepts the world’s judgment of the good already done. But if that good is forgotten and the good still intended is blocked, future generations—“posterity”—will set the record right. Calling posterity an “avenger” is figurative: later people will answer the injustice by remembering and judging the speaker’s actions more fairly.
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