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2023-08-06 21:15:47 UTC - NOT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 93923C61C2CF98D22722F9B040B000128C08C4944833BCD021470A964D81A7AE
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Original Note:
This was attributed to Seneca in the 1945 book What Great Men Think About Religion by Ira Cardiff. However, no original source for this has been found in the works of Seneca or published translations. It is likely that the quote originates with Edward Gibbon (1737-1794). https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Seneca_the_Younger#:~:text=As%20quoted%20in%20What%20Great%20Men%20Think%20About%20Religion https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/890/pg890-images.html#:~:text=various%20modes%20of%20worship%2C%20which%20prevailed%20in%20the%20Roman%20world%2C%20were%20all%20considered%20by%20the%20people%2C%20as%20equally%20true%3B%20by%20the%20philosopher%2C%20as%20equally%20false%3B%20and%20by%20the%20magistrate%2C%20as%20equally%20useful.%20And%20thus%20toleration%20produced%20not%20only%20mutual%20indulgence%2C%20but%20even%20religious%20concord
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