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If men were always able to regulate their affairs with sure judgement, or if fortune always smiled upon them, they would not get caught up in any superstitions. But since people are often reduced to such desperate straits that they cannot arrive at any solid judgment and as the good things of fortune for which they have a boundless desire are quite uncertain, they fluctuate wretchedly between hope and fear. This is why most people are quite ready to believe anything. When the mind is (s)in a state of doubt, the slightest impulse can easily steer it in any direction, and all the more readily when it is hovering between hope and fear, though it may be confident, pompous, and
Posted on: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 03:51:22 +0000

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