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Pierre Bayle

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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.
Pierre Bayle
Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.
Pierre Bayle
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.
Pierre Bayle
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.
Pierre Bayle
I am a good Protestant, and in the full sense of the term, for from the bottom of my soul, I protest against everything that is said, and everything that is done.
Pierre Bayle
I know too much to be a sceptic and too little to be a dogmatist.
Pierre Bayle
The movement of comets is part of the ordinary works of nature which without regard to the happiness or misery of mankind are transported from one part of the heavens to another by virtue of the general laws of motion.
Pierre Bayle
It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.
Pierre Bayle
The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
Pierre Bayle

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