I am a good Protestant, and in the full sense of the term, for from the bottom of my soul, I protest against everything that is said, and everything that is done.
ATTRIBUTION:
Pierre Bayle (1647–1706), French skeptical thinker. Historical and Critical Dictionary in Selections, p. xviii, n. 5, trans. by R.H. Popkin, Hackett, Indianapolis (1991). Quoted in preface to Cardinal Polignac’s Anti-Lucrere.
