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Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
Human beings must be known to be loved but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.
Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?
Our nature consists in motion complete rest is death.
Two things control men’s nature, instinct and experience.
Man’s true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.
Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.