Men never do evil so thoroughly and cheerfully as when they do it

Men never do evil so thoroughly and cheerfully as when they do it for conscience sake. – Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 1670

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We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Poet at the Breakfast Table, 1872

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Never believe anything that requires you to hate people who do not believe it. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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When you think of the huge uninterrupted success of a book like Don Quixote, youre bound to realize that if humankind have not yet finished being revenged, by sheer laughter, for being let down in their greatest hope, it is because that hope was cherished so long and lay so deep! – Georges Bernanos

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Not believing has a sickness which is believing a little. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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