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“When a man is certain that he knows God’s will, and is resolved to do it regardless of the cost, he is the most dangerous person in the world.”
The simple idea that people should be allowed to worship as they wished caused more suffering than the ten plagues of Egypt.
“Debts make enemies.”
Her well-being was more important to me than my own. I have learned, during the course of a long life, that that is the meaning of love.
In Paris as everywhere, servants did not have the costly luxury of beds, but slept makeshift on the kitchen floor; and here a dozen staff were waking up and asking in scared voices what was going on.
He was what the English called a “politician”—in French un politique—meaning that he made decisions about religion according to what he thought would be good for his country, rather than the other way around.
