Man is free, but his freedom ...

Man is free, but his freedom ceases when he has no faith in it; and the greater power he ascribes to faith, the more he deprives himself of that power which God has given to him when He endowed him with the gift of reason.
Man is free, but his freedom ceases when he has no faith in it; and the greater power he ascribes to faith, the more he deprives himself of that power which God has given to him when He endowed him with the gift of reason.
 Giacomo Casanova

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Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives.
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