Quote #36

Scepticism is the first step towards truth.

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  1. Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
  2. To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
  3. Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativit…
  4. To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define …
  5. We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of man's afflictions, and we forget that they are also the source of…
  6. No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species…
  7. There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father
  8. Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who ob…

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