If you would be accounted great by your contemporaries, be not too much greater than they.
Ambrose BierceGNOSTICS, n. A sect of philosophers who tried to engineer a fusion between the early Christians and the Platonists. The former would not go into the caucus and the combination failed, greatly to the chagrin of the fusion managers.
Ambrose BierceTheology is a thing of unreason altogether, an edifice of assumptions and dreams, a superstructure without a substructure
Ambrose BierceWho never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.
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