I get up and retire when I wish. I go out if I wish and I do not go out if I do not desire to do so, except for the two days on which I give lectures.

Pierre Bayle

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I mention this only to shew that the citations of the most judicious authors frequently deceive us, and consequently that prudence obliges us to examine quotations, by whomsoever alleged.

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I lay down the Position, That whatever a Conscience well directed allows us to do for the Advancement of Truth, an erroneous Conscience will warrant for advancing a suppos'd Truth.

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I know too much to be a sceptic and too little to be a dogmatist. by Pierre Bayle

I know too much to be a sceptic and too little to be a dogmatist.

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There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.

It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.

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There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.

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