Men are not willing to suffer the decision of things to be too easie, and therefore they mingle their own prejudices with truths, and so create greater perplexities than are Naturally found therein; and those scruples, which our selves frame, give us the most pain to untangle.

— Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle, The History of Oracles, and the Cheats of the Pagan Priests (1688)

From The History of Oracles (1688).

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