La superstition est à la religion ce que l’astrologie est à l’astronomie, la fille très folle d’une mère très sage. Ces deux filles ont longtemps subjugué toute la terre.
"Whether it is useful to maintain the people in superstition," Treatise on Toleration (1763)
Citas
“Religion brought forth Prosperity, and the daughter destroyed the mother.”
Magnalia Christi Americana http://books.google.com/books?id=49JdS7NoSawC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Magnalia+Christi+Americana#PPA63,M1 (The Ecclesiastical History of New England), s. 63 (1702). Mather, commenting on the spiritual condition of the colonies, cited an old saying in Latin: Religio peperit Divitias, et filia devoravit matrem.
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Cotton Mather 6
American religious minister and scientific writer 1663–1728Related quotes
“Once, I was my mother's daughter. Now I am my daughter's mother.”
“O fairer daughter of a fair mother!”
O matre pulchra filia pulchrior
Book I, ode xvi, line 1
Odes (c. 23 BC and 13 BC)
“3214. Light-heel'd Mothers make leaden-heel'd Daughters.”
Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1745) : Light heel'd mothers make leaden-heel'd daughters.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Jaya Bharata Jananiya Tanujate (1930)