Any one who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to
make you commit injustices....In the midst of all the doubts which we have
discussed for 4,000 years in 4,000 ways, the safest course is to do nothing
against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no
fear of death.
-- Voltaire (1692-1778) "Collection of Letters on the Miracles" (1767)
make you commit injustices....In the midst of all the doubts which we have
discussed for 4,000 years in 4,000 ways, the safest course is to do nothing
against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no
fear of death.
-- Voltaire (1692-1778) "Collection of Letters on the Miracles" (1767)
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we shall commit atrocities. --... - Another writer again agreed with all my generalities,
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but said that as an inveterate skeptic I have closed... - We are on strike against those who believe that one man must exist for
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our terms are a moral code which holds that man is...
