“In a discussion of this kind our interest should be centered not on the weight of the authority but on the weight of the argument. Indeed the authority of those who set out to teach is often an impediment to those who wish to learn. They cease to use their own judgment and regard as gospel whatever is put forward by their chosen teacher.”
“The habit of arguing in support of atheism, whether it be done from conviction or in pretense, is a wicked and impious practice.”
“Nature ordains that a man should wish the good of every man, whoever he may be, for this very reason that he is a man.”
“To reduce man to the duties of his own city, and to disengage him from duties to the members of other cities, is to break the universal society of the human race.”
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