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Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement; and if a story is told of more than common interest, ennui is sure to have its joy in adding embellishments. If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal?

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It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.

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If cows and horses had hands and could draw, cows would draw gods that look like cows and horses would draw gods that look like horses.

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The Gods did not reveal, from the beginning, all things to us, but in the course of time through seeking we may learn & know things better. But as for certain truth no man knows it, nor shall he know it, neither of the Gods nor yet of all things that I speak. For even if by chance he were to utter The Final Truth, he would himself not know it: for all is but a woven web of guesses.

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The Ethiops say that their gods are flat-nosed and black, While the Thracians say that theirs have blue eyes and red hair. “If oxen and horses and lions had hands and were able to draw with their hands and do the same things as men, horses would draw the shapes of gods to look like horses and oxen would draw them to look like oxen, and each would make the gods' bodies have the same shape as they themselves had.

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The clear and perfect truth no man has seen, nor will there be anyone who knows about the gods and what I say about all things. . . ; for, however perfect what he says may be, yet he does not know it; all things are matters of opinion.

Atheism, Men, Perfect, Say, Seen, Things
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