Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Atheism
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It is far more probable that our senses should deceive us, than that an old woman should be carried up a chimney on a broom stick; and that it is far less astonishing that witnesses should lie, than that witches should perform the acts that were alleged.
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The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice, cruelty, according to their power.
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Death pays all debts.
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To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.
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My reason is not framed to bend or stoop: my knees are.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.
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