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Francis Bacon

“For this is but to dash the first table against the second; and so to consider men as Christians, as we forget that they are men. Lucretius the poet, when he beheld the act of Agamemnon, that could endure the sacrificing of his own daughter, exclaimed: Tantum Religio potuit suadere malorum.”

Francis Bacon, The Essays
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The Essays The Essays by Francis Bacon
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