“But it is necessary to the happiness of man, that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.”
Source: 1790s, The Age of Reason, Part I (1794)
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History of My Life (trans. Trask 1967), 1997 reprint, Preface, p. 26
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