considers to be, as it were, part of himself. If another person doubts them, the holder has nothing to show for their truth except that he is sure that they are true: he cannot say, “I will reconsider my reasons,” for he has no reasons to consider. What, then, is to make him abandon them? what is to touch them? He holds them, and continues to hold them, whatever is urged against him to the contrary; and thus these opinions and beliefs look like prejudices, though they are not. They are not prejudices,