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What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.

Denis Diderot

I feel, I think, I judge; therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.
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Feeling Judgement Thinking
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People
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
You have to make it happen.
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One Liner Yourself
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Composition Rich
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
Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
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Design Disturb Trouble True
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
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Convenience Moral Perception
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
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Arouse Patriot Society
The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre
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Anand Thakur
Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one’s fatherland, which is perishable?
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Enlightenment Father Greatness Oneself Perish Save
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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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
If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can’t deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.
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Essential Kind Respect Wicked Yourself
There are things I can’t force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
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Adjust Change Force Need Point View

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