"Wer möchte nicht lieber krank wie Pascal sein, als gesund wie der große Haufe?"
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Das Leben Jesu 3. Aufl., Leipzig/Paris 1870, S. 376 books.google, :fr:s:La Vie de Jésus/Chapitre XXVIII
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Ernest Renan
1823 – 1892
französischer Schriftsteller, Historiker, Archäologe und Orientalist
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