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The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.


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It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.

It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.



In matters of religion, it is very easy to deceive a man and very hard to undeceive him.

In matters of religion, it is very easy to deceive a man and very hard to undeceive him.



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.

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.



There was no other God, religion, or lawful magistracy, than conscience, which teaches all men the precepts of Justice, to do no injury, to live honestly, and give everyone his due.

There was no other God, religion, or lawful magistracy, than conscience, which teaches all men the precepts of Justice, to do no injury, to live honestly, and give everyone his due.



It is pure illusion to think that an opinion which passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.

It is pure illusion to think that an opinion which passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.



No nations are more warlike than those which profess Christianity.

No nations are more warlike than those which profess Christianity.



It is only common prejudice that induces us to believe that atheism is a fearful state.

It is only common prejudice that induces us to believe that atheism is a fearful state.



Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.

Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.



I am a good Protestant, and in the full sense of the term, for from the bottom of my soul, I protest against everything that is said, and everything that is done.

I am a good Protestant, and in the full sense of the term, for from the bottom of my soul, I protest against everything that is said, and everything that is done.



I know too much to be a sceptic and too little to be a dogmatist.

I know too much to be a sceptic and too little to be a dogmatist.





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