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“Heaven, forsooth! What are we supposed to think of heaven if it is going to be filled with creatures like these, among whom there is more poverty and corruption than I could ever name?”

“There are many wolves dressed in sheep’s clothing among us, my friend; many devils hiding behind the masks of zealous religious men, wandering around the churches and meeting houses of the land.”

“— Seeing you now act without danger, cannot you also act without fear?
— It is not fear, believe me, I hardly know what fear is. It is a doubt, that on all these emergencies constantly haunts my mind, that in performing such and such actions I may fall from my upright state. This makes fratricide a fearful task.”

“how dare you lift, your eyes to heaven with such purposes in your heart? Escape homeward, and save your soul, or farewell for ever!”

“When I lay in bed, I deemed there were two of us in it (…)The most perverse part of it was, that I rarely conceived myself to be any of the two persons. I thought for the most part that my companion was one of them, and my brother the other; and I found, that to be obliged to speak and answer in the character of another man, was. most awkward business at the long run.”

“Behold thou dost not know one half of thy might, or of the great things thou art destined to do.”

“If once a man is prejudiced on one side,
he will swear any thing in support of such prejudice.”

“Come, my friend, let us depart: thou art dreaming thou art dreaming. Rouse up all the energies of thy exalted mind, for thou art an highly-favoured one; and doubt thou not, that he whom thou servest, will be ever at thy right and left hand, to direct and assist thee.”