“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.”
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“Religion is regarded by the ignorant as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.”
“It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.”
“It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.”
“Common men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practise even a grain of it. The wise man speaks a little, even though his whole life is religion expressed in action.”
“Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.”