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Almost all Christians being wretchedly enslaved to blindness and ignorance, which the priests are so far from preventing or removing, that they blacken the darkness, and promote the delusion: wisely foreseeing that the people (like cows, which never give down their milk so well as when they are gently stroked), would part with less if they knew more.

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Now what else is the whole life of mortals, but a sort of comedy in which the various actors, disguised by various costumes and masks, walk on and pl…

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Picture the prince, such as most of them are today: a man ignorant of the law, well-nigh an enemy to his people's advantage, while intent on his pers…

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Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be devout, and – I shall boldly add – all can be theologians.

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Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it…

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In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

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Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.

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Your library is your paradise.

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There is no joy in possession without sharing.

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Our determination to imitiate Christ should be such that we have no time for other matters.

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