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“I often communed with my heart on this, and wondered how a connection, that had the wellbeing of mankind solely in view, could be productive of fruits so bitter.”

“Nothing in the world delights a truly religious people so much, as consigning them to eternal damnation.”

“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.”