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Discourse of Port de Set with P. & Mr. [blank] at Petit Paris, & the teaching biding to cheat the Hugenots: Nulla fides servanda cum Hereticis, nisi satis validi sunt ad se defendendos [faith need not be kept with heretics].

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There cannot any one moral Rule be propos'd, whereof a Man may not justly demand a Reason.

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New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

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Freedom of Nature is, to be under no other restraint but the Law of Nature.

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It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

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