Wrong or right, he would never again for anything in the world have recourse to a priest. He admitted that these men were his superiors in intelligence or by reason of their sacred calling; but in argument there is neither superiority, nor inferiority, nor title, nor age, nor name; nothing is of worth but truth, before which all men are equal.
Romain Rolland JEAN-CHRISTOPHE VOLUMES 1 to 4 PART I: JEAN-CHRISTOPHE