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The Gnostic needs a lot of patience because any act of impatience leads him to failure.

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The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.

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It is evident, indeed, that such a doctrine, taken by itself in a literal manner, had no future. The world, in continuing to exist, caused it to crumble. One generation of man at the most was the limit of its endurance. The faith of the first Christian generation is intelligible, but the faith of the second generation is no longer so. After the death of John, or of the last survivor, whoever he might be, of the group which had seen the master, the word of Jesus was convicted of falsehood.

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As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him.

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Good humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us.

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Blessed are the blind, for they know not enough to ask why.

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Jesus , in some respects, was an anarchist, for he had no idea of civil government. That government seems to him purely and simply an abuse. A great social revolution, in which rank will be overturned, in which all authority in this world will be humiliated, was his dream.

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