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- The opinion formulated by the Church has more value in my eyes than human reasons, whatever they may be.
- There is nothing I congratulate myself on more heartily than on never having joined a sect.
- Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason --you could reckon the ration as twenty-four…
- Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the…
- Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.
- The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.
- At last concluded that no creature was more miserable than man, for that all other creatures are content with those bounds that nature set them,…
- Almost all Christians being wretchedly enslaved to blindness and ignorance, which the priests are so far from preventing or removing, that they blacken the darkness,…
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