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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.

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Many are destined to reason wrongly others not to reason at all: and others to persecute those who do reason.

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S'il n'existait pas Dieu il faudrait l'inventer." (If God did not exist he would have to be invented.)

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The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

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