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bet on the affirmative, since we know that we often draw
the same conclusions from different premises.

This is enough, at least, to obscure the matter; not that it completely
extinguishes the natural light which assures us of these things. The
academicians would have won. But this dulls it and troubles the dogmatists
to the glory of the sceptical crowd, which consists in this doubtful
ambiguity and in a certain doubtful dimness from which our doubts cannot
take away all the clearness, nor our own natural lights chase away all the
darkness.

393. It is a singular thing to consider that there are people in the world
who, having renounced all the laws of God and nature, have made laws for
themselves which they strictly obey, as, for instance, the soldiers of
Mahomet, robbers, heretics, etc. It is the same with logicians. It seems
that their license must be without any limits or barriers, since they have
broken through so many that are so just and sacred.

394. All the principles of sceptics, stoics, atheists, etc., are true. But
their conclusions are false, because the opposite principles are also true.

395. Instinct, reason.--We have an incapacity of proof, insurmountable by
all dogmatism. We have an idea of truth, invincible to all scepticism.

396. Two things instruct man about his whole nature; instinct and
experience.

397. The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be miserable.
A tree does not know itself to be miserable. It is then being miserable to
know oneself to be miserable; but it is also being great to know that one is
miserable.

398. All these same miseries prove man's greatness. They are the miseries of
a great lord, of a deposed king.

399. We are not miserable without feeling it. A ruined house is not
miserable. Man only is miserable. Ego vir videns.63

400. The greatness