Quotation by Stendhal

This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins.... It is one step away from protestantism.
Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842), French novelist. The Charterhouse of Parma, ch. XII, Dupont (1839) (trans. by Jeri King).
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