"If an historian were to relate truthfully all……" — Pierre Bayle
"If an historian were to relate truthfully all the crimes, weaknesses, and disorders of mankind, his readers would take his work for satire rather than for history."
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12 Quotes by Pierre Bayle
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It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.
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The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
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Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.
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I am a good Protestant, and in the full sense of the term, for from the bottom of my soul,…
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It is pure illusion to think that an opinion which passes down from century to century, from generation to generation,…
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There is not less wit nor invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being…
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In matters of religion, it is very easy to deceive a man and very hard to undeceive him.
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I mention this only to shew that the citations of the most judicious authors frequently deceive us, and consequently that…
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Philosophy can be compared to some powders that are so corrosive that, after they have eaten away the infected flesh…
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I know too much to be a sceptic and too little to be a dogmatist.
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There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in…
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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