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If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.

Denis Diderot

Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
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Bad Confusion Different Follow Reveal Truth
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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Association Catch Ourselves Vice
What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.
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Comedy Oneself Play World
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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Anand Thakur
We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of man’s afflictions, and we forget that they are also the source of all his pleasures.
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Himself Passion Pleasure Source
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Composition Rich
The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.
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Children Father God Himself
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Evil Genius World
Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Goodness Language Music Primitive
There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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Anand Thakur
Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.
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Greatness Mindset Moral Passion Raise Small Soul
Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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Anand Thakur
Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.
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Animal Guide Instinct Intelligence Reason
Only the bad man is alone.
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Alone Bad Man
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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Atheist God Injurious

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