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"How can anyone lose who chooses to become a Christian? If, when he dies, there turns out to be no God and his faith was in vain, he has lost nothing...If, however, there is a God and a heaven and a hell. then he has gained heaven and his skeptical friends have lost everything."
"We are only troubled by the fears which we, and not nature, give ourselves, for they add to the state in which we are the passions of the state in which we are not."
"Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant."
"Unable to make what is just strong, we have made what is strong just."
"Brave deeds are wasted when hidden."
"Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism."
"Great and small suffer the same mishaps."
"Justice and truth are two such subtle points, that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately."
"The end point of rationality is to demonstrate the limits of rationality."
"Il est non seulement impossible, mais inutile de conna|"tre Dieu sans Je sus-Christ. It is not only impossible, but also useless to recognize God without Jesus."
"It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason."
"It is dangerous to tell the people that the laws are unjust; for they obey them only because they think them just. Therefore it isnecessary to tell them at the same time that they must obey them because they are laws, just as they must obey superiors, not because they are just, but because they are superiors. In this way all sedition is prevented."
"To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity."
"What reason have atheists for saying that we cannot rise again? That what has never been, should be, or that what has been, should be again? Is it more difficult to come into being than to return to it."
"We are fools to depend upon the society of our fellow-men. Wretched as we are, powerless as we are, they will not aid us; we shall die alone."
"Our senses will not admit anything extreme. Too much noise confuses us, too much light dazzles us, too great distance or nearness prevents vision, too great prolixity or brevity weakens an argument, too much pleasure gives pain, too much accordance annoys."
"He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide."
"Opinion is, as it were, the queen of the world, but force is its tyrant."
"To deny, to believe, and to doubt well, are to a man what the race is to a horse."
"Not the zeal alone of those who seek Him proves God, but the blindness of those who seek Him not."