But it is no light matter to weigh arguments.

Who of us knows their value with any nicety?
Every mind has its own telescope.

An objection that disappears in your eyes, is a colossus in mine: you find an argument trivial that to me is overwhelming....

If then it is so difficult to weigh reasons, and if there are no questions which have not two sides, and nearly always in equal measure, how come we to decide with such rapidity?
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24.) When the pious cry out against scepticism, it seems to me that they do not understand their own interest, or else that they are inconsistent.
If it is certain that a true faith to be embraced, and a false faith to be abandoned, need only to be thoroughly known, then surely it must be highly desirable that universal doubt should spread over the surface of the earth, and that all nations should consent to have the truth of their religions examined.