It happens as one sees in cages: the birds which are outside despair of ever getting in, and those within are equally desirous of getting out.
Original text (French)
Original text (French)
They make me hate things that are likely, when they would impose them upon me as infallible.
I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
What of a truth that is bounded by these mountains and is falsehood to the world that lives beyond?
God's justice and His power are inseparable; 'tis in vain we invoke His power in an unjust cause.
Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.
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