Christian Raitz Von

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“He says a man may perhaps answer, that the necessity of things held by him, is not a stoical necessity, but a Christian necessity, &c. But this distinction I have not used, nor indeed have ever heard before, nor could I think any man could make stoical and Christian two kinds of necessity, though they may be two kinds of doctrine”
—Thomas Hobbes (1579–1688)

“Where there is plenty of light there is strong shadow.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)