Ecclesiastes shows that man without God is in total ignorance and inevitable misery. - Blaise Pascal

These eight rules [above] contain all the precepts for solid and immutable proofs.

What would you say of that man who was made king by the error of the people, if he had so far forgotten his natural condition as to imagine that this kingdom was due to him, that he deserved it, and that it belonged to him of right? You would marvel at his stupidity and folly. But is there less in the people of rank who live in so strange a forgetfulness of their natural condition?

Nie betrieben die Menschen das Böse so umfassend und freudig wie aus religiöser Überzeugung.