“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 (1647-1706)
“If an historian were to relate truthfully all the crimes, weaknesses, and disorders of mankind, his readers would take his work for satire rather than for history.”
― Pierre Bayle (1647-1706)
"It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling."
― Pierre Bayle (1647-1706)
"The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth."
― Pierre Bayle (1647-1706)
"In matters of religion, it is very easy to deceive a man and very hard to undeceive him."
― Pierre Bayle (1647-1706)
"There was no other God, religion, or lawful magistracy, than conscience, which teaches all men the precepts of Justice, to do no injury, to live honestly, and give everyone his due."
― Pierre Bayle (1647-1706)
"No nations are more warlike than those which profess Christianity."
― Pierre Bayle (1647-1706)