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Other quotes of Pierre Bayle
It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.
Pierre Bayle
In matters of religion, it is very easy to deceive a man and very hard to undeceive him.
Pierre Bayle
The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
Pierre Bayle
If an historian were to relate truthfully all the crimes, weaknesses, and disorders of mankind, his readers would take his work for satire rather than for history.
Pierre Bayle
There was no other God, religion, or lawful magistracy, than conscience, which teaches all men the precepts of Justice, to do no injury, to live honestly, and give everyone his due.
Pierre Bayle
It is pure illusion to think that an opinion which passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.
Pierre Bayle
No nations are more warlike than those which profess Christianity.
Pierre Bayle
It is only common prejudice that induces us to believe that atheism is a fearful state.
Pierre Bayle
Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.
Pierre Bayle
I am a good Protestant, and in the full sense of the term, for from the bottom of my soul, I protest against everything that is said, and everything that is done.
Pierre Bayle
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This page presents the quote "I mention this only to shew that the citations of the most judicious authors frequently deceive us, and consequently that prudence obliges us to examine quotations, by whomsoever alleged.". Author of this quote is Pierre Bayle. This quote is about citations, quotations, deceiving, prudence,.