(1767-1833), French orientalist
He who expects men to be always as good as their beliefs, indulges a groundless hope; and he who expects men to be always as bad as their beliefs, vexes himself with a needless fear.
Wrrong conduct is far more powerful to produce erroneous thinking, than erroneous thinking to produce wrong conduct.
Our recognition and apprehension of the highest truth is essentially an affair of the heart, far more than of the head.
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