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Marcus Tullius Cicero
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This seems to be advanced as the surest basis for our belief in the existence of gods, that there is no race so uncivilized, no one in the world so barbarous that his mind has no inkling of a belief in gods.
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Who can love the man he fears. or by who he thinks he is himself feared?
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