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The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.

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
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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Machine Order Ordinary Quality
Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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Step Truth
Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.
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Book Greatness Literature Poet Taste
Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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Anand Thakur
Every man has his dignity. I’m willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
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Dignity Man Myself Willing
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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Philosophy Road
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Composition Rich
The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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Blood God Myself Sin
Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.
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Destroy Doctor Preserve Success Work
When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
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Allow Music Painting Performance Poetry Superstitious
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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Anand Thakur
Isn’t it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
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Better Chance Goodness Man
The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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Destroy Man Pronounce
It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.
DENIS DIDEROT

Love Rob
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People

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