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The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter.

Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.

Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Wonder is the desire for knowledge.