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The great difficulty of Christianity is that many of the Bible revelations seem to clash with our sense of justice and right.

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky The Religious Tendencies of the Age (1860)

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The great art in politics consists not in hearing those who speak, but in hearing those who are silent.

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Terror is everywhere the beginning of religion.

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There have certainly been many periods in history when virtue was more rare than under the Caesars; but there has probably never been a period when vice was more extravagant or uncontrolled.

A History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne (1869)

There was a tradition that Pythagoras had himself penetrated to India, and learnt philosophy from the gymnosophists.

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