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It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt.
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Essays
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Italy's realease date:
1625
Release date:
1996
Italian publisher:
Sellerio Editore Palermo - 244 pages
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Therefore, as atheism is in all respects hateful, so in this, that it depriveth human nature of the means to exalt itself, above human frailty.
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The winning of honor, is but the revealing of a man's virtue and worth, without disadvantage.
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Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled. Mahomet called the hill to come to him, again and again; and when the hill stood still he was never a whit abashed, but said, "If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill."
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It is a strange desire, to seek power and to lose liberty.
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