Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.
The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.
Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one's fatherland, which is perishable?
A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.